Eleonora Ter-Parsegova, who was a member of Socialist-Democratic Party of Georgia since 1902, was first arrested in 1908. The reason of arrest was her joining, after the manifestation on 17 October 1905, that group which took the reigns of administration in Sokhumi for several weeks in 1906, thereby replacing the bodies of the Tsarist government. This group paralyzed the public bodies, occupied the city and ran the city during several weeks.

Born into a family of noble standing in Imereti [a western region of Georgia], Minadora Orjonikidze-Toroshelidze went to Geneva to study medicine. It was there that she got introduced to Marxism and her future husband Malakia, a Bolshevik. Together they returned to Tbilisi, and she plunged into activism as a member of the Menshevik faction of the socialist movement.

Liza Bolkvadze (1885-1937) was among the five women who became members of Georgia’s first, unofficial parliament, or the Founding Assembly. She was detained several times, exiled and, finally, executed by firing squad for her anti-Soviet work.

Ana Sologashvili was born in 1882. She would be one of Georgia’s first MPs.