Women from the past

Olga Guramishvili – Chavchavadze, Public figure

1842 – 1927

Olga Guramishvili, the wife of Ilia Chavchavadze, was engaged in public activity: she was a member of the Society for the Spreading of Literacy Among Georgians and of Historical and Ethnographic Society of Georgia; from 1895 to 1906 was a chair of Georgian Women’s Charity Association; led a school of sewing for Georgian women; assisted the association of nobility of Tbilisi governorate helping poor students. In 1908, with her active participation, a school was opened in Ilia Chavchavadze’s estate in Saguramo.

Olga Guramishvili appealed to the government not to execute the murderers of her husband because Ilia Chavchavadze was himself against death penalty.

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