In 1919, Georgians elected the first Constituent Assembly of #Georgia (current Parliament). Among the elected 130 members - five were women. All female members of the Assembly were outspoken critics against the Russian rule and Soviet occupation of Georgia, organizing revolutionary marches in Tbilisi, leading Georgia to gain independence in 1918 and resisting Soviet invasion in the post-1921 era.
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. |
Kristine Sharashidze was a member of Georgia’s Founding Assembly and Literacy Society. She worked as a journalist and teacher, and was an active member of the anti-Soviet movement. She was arrested more than once. Her family was executed by a firing squad. |
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. |