Kipiani was energetically involved in Georgia’s social and cultural life. Georgian national identity and conflict with the Imperial authorities In the period of 1876-1879, he served as a mayor of Tiflis. He was elected as a Marshal of the Nobility of the Tiflis and Kutaisi guberniyas from 1864 to 1870 and from 1879 to 1886, respectively. Subsequently, he was actively involved in the emancipation program, articulating the interests of the small and middle nobility. His plan did not well compensate the serfs they would not be given any land, but rather would continue to farm their landlord's plots and pay for the use of it. During the emancipation reform, he was entrusted with the task of formulating the noble position and charged, in 1862, with devising a way to free the Georgian serfs. During his tenure, he became a prominent spokesman for liberal nobility. Allowed to return to Georgia in 1837, he entered the civil service and held, until 1864, various positions at the viceregal office.

Following the collapse of the 1832 Georgian plot against the Russian rule, to which Kipiani was a participant, he was deported to Vologda, where he briefly worked for the local governor's chancellery. Having graduated from the Tiflis School of Nobility in 1830, he then worked there as a teacher. He was born to a noble family in the village of Mereti near Gori, Georgia, then part of Imperial Russia. In 2007 he was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church as a saint.Įarly life and liberal activities A leader of Georgia's liberal nobility, he was known for his work in support of the Georgian culture and society, a cause that led to his 1886 exile and murder at the hands of Russian Imperial authorities. Prince Dimitri Ivanes dze Kipiani ( Georgian: დიმიტრი ყიფიანი alternatively spelled as Qipiani) (Ap– October 24, 1887) was a Georgian statesman, publicist, writer and translator.

დროთა კავშირი by Edisher Kipiani