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Stanislav Lakoba | Special to Abkhaz World
The venerable Abkhazian princely family Shervashidze (Chachba) is renowned for having produced many famous personalities. The genealogy of the Shervashidze family is discussed in considerable detail in the fourth volume of the book “Noble Families of the Russian Empire”
(Moscow, 1998).
Chapter 4. History: Ist-XVIIIth Century, Oleg Bgazhba - 'The Abkhazians: A Handbook' by George Hewitt (Editor) Richmond, Surrey: The Curzon Press 1999.
Read more …History: Ist-XVIIIth Century, by Oleg Bgazhba
T.A. Achugba
The Ethnic History of the Abkhazians in the XIX-XXth Centuries.
Ethno-political and migrational aspects(Sukhum, 2010)
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This telegram was sent by Abkhazia’s Revolutionary Committee on 26 March, 1921. It reached Moscow addressees on 28 March. On the same day, as is well-known, the Abkhazian SSR was proclaimed.
Read more …Telegram from the Revolutionary Committee of Abkhazia of March 26, 1921
Annual Review of Anthropology
Vol. 31: 497-524 (October 2002)
Excerpt from Stanislav Lakoba's ''Двуглавый орел и традиционная Абхазия'' (Double-headed eagle, traditional Abkhazia)
In the suppression of the last pockets of resistance in the Caucasus, Georgian militia, loyal servants of the autocratic state, played a significant role. Together with the Russian troops, they took part in the victory parade at Krasnaya Polyana on 21 May 1864. And on 9 June, as a crowd gathered, Tiflis Marshal of the Nobility, Dmitri Kipiani, greeted the Governor of the Caucasus, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich Romanov, with the words:
Read more …21 May 1864: From Dmitri Kipiani to Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich Romanov