Grigol Uratadze

Grigol "Grisha" Uratadze (Georgian: გრიგოლ "გრიშა" ურატაძე) (10 February 1878 – 12 February 1959) was a Georgian Social Democratic politician, diplomat and author.

Uratadze was born in Atsana in the Ozurget Uyezd (modern Guria).

[2] In 1912, Uratadze, together with Vlasa Mgeladze, was part of the Georgian delegation to Vienna, where Leon Trotsky organized his short-lived union of social democratic factions as an alternative to Lenin's narrow notion of party unity.

As a Georgian plenipotentiary in Moscow, he signed a 7 May 7, 1920 treaty with Soviet Russia in which Georgia's independence was de jure recognized.

The Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921 forced him into exile to France,[5] where he authored several monographs and numerous articles on the revolutionary movement in Georgia and the Soviet nationalities policy.