Shalva Aleksi-Meskhishvili

April 26, 1884 (age 75)

Telavi

In 1902, he enrolled in the Odessa University from where he was excluded for his involvement in student protests in 1904. In 1909, he graduated from Kharkiv University and returned to Tbilisi where he practiced law. He was one of the founders of the Georgian Social-Federalist Party and joined the Georgian National Council after the Russian Revolution of 1917. After Georgia’s declaration of independence in May 1918, he served as Minister of Justice in the government of Noe Ramishvili until the 1919 elections in which he obtained a seat in the Constituent Assembly. After the Bolshevik takeover, he remained in Soviet Georgia and practiced law in Tbilisi. In the 1920s, he was twice arrested by the Communist government, but survived the Great Purge of the 1930s.

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Alexi-Meskhishvili was born in Telavi into the family of the notable Georgian theater actor Lado Alexi-Meskhishvili.

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In 1902, he enrolled in the Odessa University from where he was excluded for his involvement in student protests in 1904. In 1909, he graduated from Kharkiv University and returned to Tbilisi where he practiced law. He was one of the founders of the Georgian Social-Federalist Party and joined the Georgian National Council after the Russian Revolution of 1917.

After Georgia’s declaration of independence in May 1918, he served as Minister of Justice in the government of Noe Ramishvili until the 1919 elections in which he obtained a seat in the Constituent Assembly.

After the Bolshevik takeover, he remained in Soviet Georgia and practiced law in Tbilisi. In the 1920s, he was twice arrested by the Communist government, but survived the Great Purge of the 1930s.

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