In
1895 he graduated from the Ozurgeti Theological School, then the Kutaisi Theological Seminary. In
1897 he left for
France and lived in Saint-Louis. He graduated from the Faculty of Agronomy at the Agronomic College of Nans, then studied in
Lausanne, attended lectures in chemistry at the
University of Geneva. Abroad, Gogelia entered the revolutionary struggle, becoming a member of an organized group of
Russian anarchists. Together with his wife, he edited the anarchist party organ "
Bread and Freedom" in
Geneva, in which active anarchists
Pyotr Kropotkin,
Varlam Cherkezishvili and
Luigi Bertoni actively collaborated. From the time of the
1905 Russian Revolution, Gogelia was one of the most active figures among the anarchists, editing various magazines and newspapers, participating in meetings, discussions and lectures. Arriving home during the 1905 revolution, he was engaged in revolutionary propaganda in
Sukhumi and
Tiflis. But soon he fled to Europe again - first to
Switzerland and then to France. He published works by Cherkezishvili; The most important of these was "How and from what did revolutionary syndicalism develop?" In the summer of 1914, Gogelia was diagnosed with "progressive
tuberculosis". In 1921, Gogelia returned to
Georgia. He lived first in
Kutaisi, then in
Kobuleti. He ended his life in a psychiatric hospital and was buried in the
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