16 Facts About Kandid Charkviani

Kandid Charkviani was a Georgian party and government official, and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia from 1938 to 1952.

Kandid Charkviani began his career working for several publications, including major Georgian newspapers.

Yet Kandid Charkviani's promotion was met with strong resistance from Lavrenti Beria, who had been planning to find a replacement for this position amongst his own proteges.

Stalin first learned of Kandid Charkviani by reading his articles in the Georgian newspapers.

Kandid Charkviani was appointed Head of the Department of Education and Culture at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia.

In general, Kandid Charkviani was rather rational in handling the affairs of the republic.

Kandid Charkviani cites an example when, after the Second World War, supposedly on the orders of Beria, who had a personal grudge against Kikodze, Beria's proteges in the Georgian NKVD fabricated charges against him accusing him of having links with Nazi Germany.

Kandid Charkviani was accused during the Mingrelian Affair, a conspiracy aimed against Lavrenti Beria's proteges in Georgia.

For years historians erroneously thought that Candide Kandid Charkviani was Mingrelian and that he was punished because of his links with Beria.

However, the newly opened archives in Georgia provide evidence that Kandid Charkviani, who was Lechkhumian and not Mingrelian or Svan, was accused because he allegedly failed to "detect and repress the criminal nationalist ring of counter revolutionaries within the ranks of the Georgian Communist Party".

Back in Tbilisi, Kandid Charkviani began his research work at the Institute of Economics and Law.

Kandid Charkviani defended his Candidate and Doctor's Dissertations, and in 1981 he was appointed as Director of the Research Institute of People's Economy and Economic Planning, where he worked until 1988.

Kandid Charkviani was the author of 40 research papers and monographs pertaining to wine-making, development of the electrical energy sector and other fields of economy.

Kandid Charkviani translated German poetry into Georgian, including poems by Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

One of his sons, Gela Kandid Charkviani, was the Georgian ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Kandid Charkviani's grandson was Irakli Charkviani, an influential Georgian musician and writer.