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Evgeni Gegechkori

1881–1954 · 20th century

Evgeni Gegechkori was a Georgian Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat, the regional government set up in Tiflis in November 1917 after the Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd. He later served as foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, and after the Soviet invasion of 1921 went into exile in France, where he died.

Evgeni Gegechkori
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Transcaucasian Commissariat

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