1. Niko Nikoladze was a Georgian writer and public figure primarily known for his contributions to the development of Georgian liberal journalism and his involvement in various economic and social projects of that time.
11 Facts About Niko Nikoladze
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Niko Nikoladze was born in Kutaisi, western Georgia into petite noble family of Nikoladze.
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Niko Nikoladze was the son of a merchant, Iakob Nikoladze and his wife, Princess Elizabeth Lortkipanidze.
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From 1871 to 1875, Nikoladze lived between Paris and Tbilisi, organizing several revolutionary periodicals such as Krebuli in Tbilisi, Drosha in Paris and Mimokhilva in Tbilisi.
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Niko Nikoladze returned to Tbilisi in 1875, but was arrested for his radical publications and expelled to Stavropol in 1880.
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From 1886, he led the liberal group Meore Dasi and though his family lived in Didi Jikhaishi, in the Imereti region of western Georgia, Nikoladze served as the editor of Novoe obozrenie in Tbilisi.
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Niko Nikoladze and Olga's other two children Giorgi and Tamara, were born in Didi Jikhaishi.
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From 1894 to 1912, Nikoladze was elected a mayor of Poti.
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Niko Nikoladze was elected an honorary chairman of the National Democratic Party of Georgia.
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Niko Nikoladze was still abroad, when the short-lived Georgian independence was terminated by the Soviet Russia's military invasion in 1921.
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Yet Nikoladze decided to return to Soviet Georgia, retreating into a world of theory, preaching education and reform instead of violent revolution.