The Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili on Tuesday honored Ilia Chavchavadze - a Georgian publicist, author and a major figure of the country's 19th century national movement - on the 185th anniversary of his birthday, by saying the public figure had dedicated his life to an “awakening of the national self-consciousness” and development of “statesman thinking”.
"Ilia Chavchavadze dedicated his life to an awakening of the national self-consciousness of Georgians and the development of statesman thinking. His activities in all spheres of public life, his struggle for a better future of the country, paved the way that we are still following today”, - Gharibashvili said.
“Today his name reminds us once again of the responsibility of each of us to unceasingly follow the path of selfless service to the motherland and the truth”, - the Prime Minister stated.
To be informed, promoting preservation and promotion of the Georgian language against ongoing processes of Russification of the local culture, he published a number of major literary works on subjects of social and cultural gaps between countryside and urban population, moral stagnation in society and more.
Ilia Chavchavadze was assassinated in 1907 while travelling in his cart outside the historical capital Mtskheta near Tbilisi, with various elements of the killing remaining unresolved by subsequent investigations.
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