Silibistro Jibladze
Silibistro Jibladze was a Georgian Social Democrat.
Silibistro "Silva" Jibladze was the Marxist founder of Mesame Dasi, a Georgian socialist group. At one point he was introduced to Joseph Stalin. In 1884 whilst at the Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary, Jibladze slapped the rector of the institution. The rector had described the Georgian language as "dogspeak". For this he was sentenced to three years in a disciplinary battalion
with the Georgian Social-Democrats, Tbilisi, 1920.
In the first row: S. Devdariani, Noe Ramishvili, Noe Zhordania, Karl Kautsky and his wife Luise, Silibistro Jibladze, Razhden Arsenidze;
in the second row: Kautsky's secretary Olberg, Victor Tevzaia, K. Gvarjaladze, Konstantine Sabakhtarashvili, S. Tevzadze, Avtandil Urushadze, R. Tsintsabadze
