Vasil Tsereteli

His brother was Professor Mikheil Tsereteli, a famous Georgian historian and public benefactor.

His son Giorgi Tsereteli was a distinguished orientalist, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, his daughter Tinatin Tsereteli was also a famous scientist (jurist) and a Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

In 1882 Tsereteli graduated from the Classical Gymnasium in Kutaisi and in 1898 from the Medical Faculty of the Kiev University (Ukraine).

From 1888 onward, he was an active collaborator and author of the main Georgian newspaper Iveria of Ilia Chavchavadze.

In the 1910s Tsereteli edited the Georgian newspapers of national-democratic direction Samshoblo and Chveni Qvekana.