He subsequently studied in Tartu, Kharkov and the United States and received a law degree.

Devdariani organized a reading circle, held away from the seminary and their house, where they studied The Communist Manifesto, Kautsky'sThe Erfurt Program, and Engels's The Development of Scientific Socialism.

They hid these books and their handwritten transcriptions whenever visited by the monk Dmitrii, the seminary's inspector.

In 1906-1907, he personally saved Stalin from arrest and gave him refuge in his ancestral home in Imereti.

[2] Devdariani was the author of several works on philosophy, including a three-volume history of Georgian thought which was lost after his execution.