Kote Andronikashvili

Konstantine (Kote) Manueli dze Andronikashvili (b. 1876, Kachreti, Signakh uezd — age unknown) — a political figure of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, one of the leaders of the Committee for the Independence of Georgia.
==Early Life==
Kote was noble-born to the Andronikashvili Family, The descendants from Andronikos I Komnenoshttp://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00011911 He graduated from Tbilisi 3rd gymnasium in 1897. He continued his studies in Russia, first studying at the Law Faculty of Moscow University, and from the third year at the University of Kiev (1899-1900).
In the same year, he was expelled from the school and even imprisoned for his participation in the student movement of Kyiv University. He spent about five months in the Kiev prison. Since 1903, he was under the open supervision of the police. He returned to Tbilisi in 1906. He worked in the legal social-democratic newspapers "Elva" (English Language: Lightning) and "Skhivi" (English Language: Sun Ray) which were published under the editorship of Noe Zhordania and Filipp Makharadze; Collaborated in "Mogzaurobashi" (English Language: Travel) magazine. He wrote articles on economic issues. He used the party pseudonyms "Kakhetian" and "Archil".
==Political Activity==
he was again arrested and sentenced to exile. In 1911, he escaped from exile and went to Europe via Moscow. He lived first in Geneva, then in Paris, where he completed electro-technical courses. After the February revolution of 1917, he returned to his homeland.
In November 1917, he was elected as a member of the National Council of Georgia. From February 1918, he was a member of Transcaucasian Commissariat. On May 26, 1918, he signed the Declaration of Independence of Georgia. In 1918, he was a member of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. From March 12, 1919, he was elected as a member of the founding assembly of the Republic of Georgia on the list of the Social Democratic Party of Georgia. He was the chairman of the military commission and a member of the constitutional commissions. At the same time, he worked as a partner of the state controller. He was also the chairman of the musical society. In February 1921, during the attack of the Soviet Russia on the Democratic Republic of Georgia, he was appointed as an extraordinary representative of the government in Telavi uezd. In March 1923, he became the chairman of the Committee for the Independence of Georgia. He used the party pseudonym "Vakhtang".https://prosopography.iliauni.edu.ge/persons/14-konstantine-kote-emanuelis-dze-andronikashvili
==Suspected Death==
On September 4, 1924, he was arrested near the village of Shiomghvime. From July 15 to August 3, 1925, along with 46 other political prisoners, he was tried by the Supreme Court of the Georgian SSR on charges of organizing the anti-Soviet uprising of August 1924, Referencing the August Uprising. He was sentenced to be shot, which was replaced by 10 years of imprisonment and "severe isolation". In the end, he probably died in the Great Terror of 1937-1938. Nothing about him can be found in the Russian-language "books of memory".
==Literature==
Founding Assembly of Georgia 1919, Vol., 2016. p. 151
Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921): Encyclopedia-lexicon, tb.: University Publishing House, 2018. — p. 28-29.
Category:1876 births
Category:People from Kakheti
Category:Politicians
Category:Democratic Republic of Georgia