Sharadze, Guram Severyanovich

Sharadze was involved in the anti-Soviet Georgian national movement in the late 1980s and was closely associated with Zviad Gamsakhurdia , who became the first elected president of Georgia in 1991 . After the overthrow of Gamsakhurdia in 1992, Sharadze was in opposition to the government of Eduard Shevardnadze . In 1995, he founded the ultranationalist movement “Ena, Mamuli, Sartsmunoeba” (“Language, Fatherland, Religion”) and was elected to the Georgian parliament . In 2002, he led (however, unsuccessfully) a movement to ban the religious denomination of Jehovah's Witnesses in Georgia, for which he was severely criticized by human rights defenders and reformist politicians. At the same time, he provided patronage to the terrorist sect of the basilists . In 2003, he joined the Shevardnadze bloc “ For New Georgia ” to participate in parliamentary elections, which were declared rigged and provoked mass demonstrations, culminating in a bloodless Rose Revolution . Since then, Sharadze has withdrawn from active political activity, but tried to organize a social movement against Western influence on Georgia, declaring the social activities of philanthropist George Soros to be potentially more harmful to Georgia than the Bolshevik revolution.

In 2004, he was sentenced for hooliganism to imprisonment for fifteen days after he tumbled down the posters of Polish artist Rafal Olbinsky at an exhibition at the National Parliamentary Gallery in Georgia, declaring them pornographic . The following year, he was arrested again, for insulting the rector of Tbilisi State University , who developed a Western-style reform program.

Sharadze was a professor of philology at Tbilisi State University and a corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences . He is the author of several works on Georgian literature and history, in which he paid special attention to the Georgian Democratic Republic ( 1918 - 1921 ) and Georgian political emigration to Europe during the Soviet era.

On May 20, 2007, Guram Sharadze was killed on Melikishvili Avenue in the center of Tbilisi , opposite the office of the Aldagi insurance company, Georgy Barateli, a former friend of his son. Shortly afterwards, Barateli was arrested after a short shootout with the police. However, the daughter of Guram Sharadze, Rusudan Sharadze claims that Georgy Barateli is innocent, and that the Georgian authorities are involved in the murder of her father.

• American Georgians
• David Chubinashvili, as a rustvelologist
• Evgeny Bolkhovitinov - the first Russian rustologist
• Ilya Chavchavadze (1837-1907)
• Materials from the archive of Bel Vicar
• From Peter the Great to Leo Tolstoy
• Plato Ioseliani as a Rustvelologist
• The sun and love of Georgia on the island of Albion
• French diary

• Guram Sharadze: “The dictatorship of Soros in Georgia may be worse than the dictatorship of the Bolsheviks”
• Official Profile of the Georgian Parliament
• Professor Guram Sharadze is killed by the Imedinews . May 20 , 2007 .