People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Filipp Yeseyevich Makharadze ფილიპე იესეს ძე მახარაძე The Bolshevik elder removed by Stalin for trying to Sovietize Georgia gently
- Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин The leader born to a poor Georgian family who came to dominate party and state
- Kamo Симон Тер-Петросян The Bolsheviks' legendary expropriator, the revolutionary who feigned madness and survived four death sentences
- Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze Григорий Константинович (Серго) Орджоникидзе Commander of the industrial front: he pulled the trigger himself
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky Владимир Владимирович Маяковский The revolution’s megaphone and satirist
- Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba Нестор Аполлонович Лакоба Stalin's closest friend turned Beria's first victim: the red prince of Abkhazia