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Nikolay Chkheidze

1864–1926 · 20th century · Also known as Nikoloz Chkheidze

Nikolay Chkheidze was a Georgian Menshevik leader who chaired the Petrograd Soviet in 1917. Returning to the Caucasus, he chaired the Sejm of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and then the constituent assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. After the Soviet invasion of 1921 he went into exile in France.

Nikolay Chkheidze
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Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic

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