Zakaria Chichinadze

An avid history reader, in 1869 he had a chance encounter with the famous Georgian poet, publisher and public figure Sergey Meskhi, who invited Chichinadze to become an employee of the newspaper Droeba.

He also wrote extensively on the history and culture of Georgia, authoring more than 120 essays and letters on issues of political, social, economic and cultural history of Georgia and publishing many historical, bibliographic, ethnographic, scientific-popular and other books, while helping propagate Georgian literature among the Muslim Georgians of Adjara and Samtskhe.

[2] He published biographies of Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Pierre Proudhon, Ferdinand Lassalle, and Louis Blanc and wrote an obituary for Karl Marx.

He distributed illegal socialist literature, led a workers' circle, and published materials about the actual state of serfdom in Georgia.

"Communist" newspaper wrote on February 19, 1922: "He is a living chronicle of our writing and anyone who wants to understand the history of the development of our thought cannot go beyond Zakaria."