- Shalva Aleksi-Meskhishvili
Shalva Aleksi-Meskhishvili ( _ka. შალვა ალექსი-მესხიშვილი, also known as Shalva Meskhiev) (
April 26 ,1884 –June 18 ,1960 ) was a Georgian jurist and politician who served asMinister of Justice of theDemocratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1919.He was born in
Telavi into the family of the notable Georgian theater actorLado Aleksi-Meskhishvili . In 1902, he enrolled in theOdessa University from where he was excluded for his involvement in student protests in 1904. In 1909, he graduated fromKharkiv University and returned toTbilisi where he practiced law. He was one of the founders of the Georgian Social-Federalist Party and joined theGeorgian National Council after theRussian Revolution of 1917 . After Georgia’s declaration of independence in May 1918, he served as Minister of Justice in the government ofNoe Ramishvili until the 1919 elections in which he obtained a seat in the Constituent Assembly. After Bolshevik takeover, he remained in Soviet Georgia and practiced law in Tbilisi. In the 1920s, he was twice arrested by the Communist government, but survived theGreat Purge of the 1930s. During theWorld War II years, he featured prominently as a lawyer for a group of Muslim Georgians charged by the authorities with collaborating withTurkey against the Soviet state. [ge icon [http://www.justice.gov.ge/History%20of%20JustMin.html Shalva Aleksi-Meskhishvili] . Ministry of Justice of Georgia. AccessedOctober 10 ,2007 .]References
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