Varlam Cherkezov

Varlam Cherkezishvili (Georgian: ვარლამ ჩერქეზიშვილი) (1846–1925), also known as Varlam Nikolaevich Cherkezov in Russian manner, was a Georgian aristocrat and journalist involved in anarchist movement and Georgian national liberation movement.[1]

Cherkezov was born as a Georgean prince. During the anarchist Peter Kropotkin's exile in London, Cherkezov was his closest confidant.[2] Around 1907, he helped organize the London Anarchist Red Cross to aid political prisoners alongside Peter Kropotkin, Rudolf Rocker and Alexander Schapiro.[3] Cherkezov joined Kropotkin in signing the 1916 Manifesto of the Sixteen in support of the Allies of World War I.[4] Near the end of his life, Cherkezov returned to London where he would continue to fight again for Georgia's independence, until his death in 1925.[4]