Egnate Ninoshvili

Egnate Tomas dze Ninoshvili [1] (17 February 1859 – 12 May 1894) was a Georgian writer and social democratic activist.

Ninoshvili was born in a poor peasant family[2] in Kela village, Guria region in western Georgia.

His short stories and novels, relating the hard life of Georgian peasants and their oppression by tsarist officials, include Gogia Uishvili (1890), Lake Paliastomi (1891), Simona (1892) and Kristine (1893).

[3] In 1892, Ninoshvili was one of the founders of Mesame Dasi ("Third Generation"), a Marxist organisation based in Tbilisi[5] that no other than Joseph Stalin joined in 1898.

[6] It was through his involvement with Mesame Dasi that Stalin was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx.