Itska Rizhinashvili

Abram (Itska) Rizhinashvili (Georgian: იცკა რიჟინაშვილი‏,‏April 12, 1886 – July 17, 1906) was a Georgian Jew from Kutaisi. He studied at the Kutaisi Real Gymnasium and became involved in the social-democratic movement. While studying at the Leipzig University, he joined a local Bolshevik group in 1904. Back to Georgia in 1905, he helped propagate Marxist ideas among the army soldiers stationed in Imereti and Samegrelo. He was assassinated by a Tsarist police agent in Kutaisi, when he was 20 years old.

His story is described in a play by the Georgian Jewish writer Gerzel Baazov (1936).

References

*Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, volume 8, p. 395.