Prokofy Dzhaparidze was arrested or exiled many times for his anti-tsarist activities in Russian Empire.
11 Facts About Prokofy Dzhaparidze
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Prokofy Dzhaparidze was one of the main four commissars who gained a notable status in Soviet Union as a fallen hero of Russian Revolution.
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Prokofy Dzhaparidze was born in Schardometi village of Racha, Kutais Governorate in the Russian Empire into the untitled petite branch of the House of Japaridze, then part of the Georgian nobility.
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Prokofy Dzhaparidze was the son of Aprasion Dzhaparidze, a landowner, dvoryanin of Kutaisi and his wife, Anna Gotsiridze.
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Prokofy Dzhaparidze had to go to a village school and learnt the profession of a bootmaker.
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Prokofy Dzhaparidze was educated at the Alexandrovsk Teachers Institute in Tbilisi, Dzhaparidze joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898.
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Prokofy Dzhaparidze participated in the preparation of the May Day demonstration in 1900.
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Prokofy Dzhaparidze was arrested and held in jail 11 months, and then was sent home.
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Prokofy Dzhaparidze led delegate of the Caucasian Union of the RSDLP at the 3rd Congress of the RSDLP in London.
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Prokofy Dzhaparidze's legacy was appreciated highly across the Soviet Union.
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However, in post-Soviet Azerbaijan, the places named after Prokofy Dzhaparidze were renamed and his monument was demolished.