Lado Ketskhoveli

[2] He then showed Silibistro "Silva" Jibladze, a rather famous man who, in years past, had beaten up the rector of the Tiflis Seminary, to Stalin.

[3] During the latter part of 1899, Lado began organizing a full-scale strike by the workers in Tbilisi and he was eagerly assisted by Stalin.

Stalin was arrested by them in January 1900 under the pretense that his father, Beso, had not been paying his taxes in his local village.

[3] In January 1900, by decision of the leading group of the Tiflis organization of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Ketskhoveli went to Baku with the aim of uniting local social democratic circles and creating an underground printing house and became one of the founders of the Baku Committee of the RSDLP.

However, even with his meticulous secrecy, he was found out and the secret police first came to Lado, but he managed to escape to Baku, leaving Stalin to take his place.

[3] In 1901, Lado began to work with Abel Yenukidze and Alexander Tsulukidze in order to print a radical newspaper called Brdzola, "Struggle".

[3][4][5] Finally, in 1903, Lado was arrested in Baku and put in the Metekhi Fortress, a political prison run by the Tsars.