Illarion Mgeladze
Illarion Vissarionovich Mgeladze (Georgian: ილარიონ ბესარიონის ძე მგელაძე; 1890, Lanchkhuti – 27 July, 1941) (pseudonym - Ilya Vardin ) was a Georgian Marxist revolutionary, writer, literary critic and journalist active in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and later the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Left Opposition and was expelled from the All-Union Communist Party (b) in 1927. He recanted in 1929 and was readmitted to the party, only to be expelled again in 1935. Sentenced to ten years imprisonment and was shot in 1941.