10 Facts About Gela Charkviani

Gela Charkviani was a Georgian diplomat, writer, educator, and television personality.

Gela Charkviani was born in Tbilisi on 1 March 1939 into the family of Kandid Charkviani, a leader of the Georgian Communist Party who had been accused in the Mingrelian Affair under Joseph Stalin, and his ophthalmologist wife Tamar Djaoshvili.

Gela Charkviani studied architecture at the Georgian Technical University and eventually graduated from the Chavchavadze Institute of Foreign Languages.

For 25 years thereafter Gela Charkviani taught English and later on, Sociology at the Chavchavadze Foreign Languages Institute and Tbilisi State University.

From 1984 to 1992 Gela Charkviani was Vice-President of the Georgian Society for Cultural Relations.

From 1992 to 2003 Gela Charkviani was Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to President Eduard Shevardnadze.

Already past eighty by that time Candide Gela Charkviani was the only living person who had been directly involved in, and knew first-hand the specifics of relations between Stalin's Kremlin and the Soviet Georgia.

Gela Charkviani's awards include Order of Honour, Presidential Order of Excellence and Victory Order of St George.

Gela Charkviani's son Irakli Charkviani was an influential Georgian musician and writer.

Gela Charkviani died on 9 November 2021 at the age of 82 in Tbilisi.