1. Nikolay Chkheidze later served as president of the Transcaucasian Sejm in from February to May 1918, and as parliamentary president of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921.
15 Facts About Nikolay Chkheidze
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Nikolay Chkheidze was born to an aristocratic family in Puti, Kutais Governorate.
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From 1907 to 1917 Nikolay Chkheidze was a member of the Russian State Duma representing the Tiflis Governorate and gained popularity as a spokesman for the Menshevik faction within the Russian Social Democratic Party.
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Nikolay Chkheidze was an active member of the irregular freemasonic lodge, the Grand Orient of Russia's Peoples.
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In 1917 the year of the Russian Revolution, Nikolay Chkheidze became Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet.
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Nikolay Chkheidze failed to prevent the rise of Bolshevism and refused a post in the Russian Provisional Government.
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Nikolay Chkheidze voted to continue the war against the German Empire.
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Nikolay Chkheidze remained in Georgia and on 23 February 1918, became leader of the Transcaucasian Federation in Tiflis.
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On 26 May 1918 the Act of Independence of Georgia was adopted, Nikolay Chkheidze was elected chairman of the National Council of Georgia: this Georgian Provisional Assembly decided to appoint a government, to prepare elections and to create a constitutional commission.
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Nikolay Chkheidze proposed to Georges Clemenceau and to David Lloyd George a French or British protectorate for Georgian foreign affairs and defense, but was unsuccessful.
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Nikolay Chkheidze, who had 14 years of parliamentary life experience, oversaw the writing of the Constitution by Razhden Arsenidze and 14 other MPs of the majority and the opposition.
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In March 1921 when the Red Army invaded Georgia, Nikolay Chkheidze fled with his family to France via Constantinople.
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In 1923 and 1924, as part of the Social Democratic Labour Party of Georgia in exile, Nikolay Chkheidze opposed a national uprising in Georgia.
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On 13 June 1926 Nikolay Chkheidze committed suicide at his official residence in Leuville-sur-Orge, France.
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Nikolay Chkheidze was buried in Paris, in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery.