Abstract
Tsereteli was in prison in St. Petersburg for more than a year. In the winter of 1908–9, together with his friend and party colleague A. Dzhaparidze, he was transferred to the South. Dzhaparidze was seriously ill with tuberculosis and it was thought advisable to move him to a less severe climate. However he died on the journey, at Kursk, with Tsereteli at his bedside. Tsereteli wrote his friend’s wife a long, moving letter about her husbad’s last days. Through Tsereteli’s sister this letter came into the possession of Jean Longuet, who published it in Humanité. Tsereteli made it clear that Dzhaparidze’s last thoughts were devoted to his political ideals and after a detailed description of his death struggle, Tsereteli ended his letter.
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P.B. Axelrod, Die Krise und die Aufgaben der internationalen Sozialdemokratie, Zürich 1915, p. 7
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Roobol, W.H. (1976). A Siberian Zimmerwaldist. In: Tsereteli — A Democrat in the Russian Revolution. Studies in Social History, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1042-9_3
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