Egnate Ninoshvili

Ninoshvili was born in a poor peasant family in Kela village, Guria region in western Georgia. He studied at the Ozurgeti seminary but was expelled following a student protest. He then worked as a school teacher, telegraphist, typesetter, in a refinery and in a mine. For a brief period he studied in Montpellier, France. ==Professional activities==

His literary career started in 1887, with publications in Iveria, a literary and political newspaper. His short stories and novels, relating the hard life of Georgian peasants and their oppression by tsarist officials, include Gogia Uishvili (1890), Lake Paliastomi (1891), Simona (1892) and Kristine (1893). that no other than Joseph Stalin joined in 1898. It was through his involvement with Mesame Dasi that Stalin was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx. However, the group was too moderate for Stalin's taste and he became discontented with the viewpoints of the majority. Because of Stalin's sympathies toward Bolsheviks, he found himself constantly at odds with the others in the group. ==Death and legacy==

Ninoshvili died of tuberculosis in 1894, In 1948, a house that he had lived in at Archeuli village, Guria was converted into a museum. ==References==