Grigol Lordkipanidze

Despite an amnesty granted by the newly established Bolshevik regime, he was arrested in May 1921, and deported to Suzdal where he composed his historical essay “Thoughts on Georgia” (“ფიქრები საქართველოზე”, 1922-1924).

In 1925, he was moved to Kursk, where he was involved in educational activities and edited a local newspaper.

The letter sent to the Soviet leader also contained harsh criticism of Stalin's policies, and hence he was rearrested and exiled to Siberia.

During the 1937 Great Purges, he was summoned by Lavrenti Beria to Tbilisi to be interrogated as a "politically unreliable person".

Lordkipanidze's family learned of his death only in the late 1950s, but the place of his burial remains unknown to this day.