Minadora Orjonikidze-Toroshelidze

Minadora Orjonikidze was a Georgian politician, active in the Democratic Republic of Georgia and its Constituent Assembly. Trained as a physician at the University of Geneva, Orjonikidze became familiar with Marxism while there, and married Malakia Toroshelidze, a fellow Georgian Marxist while studying there. On their return to Georgia Orjonikidze became an active member of the revolutionary movement, though with the 1905 split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks she follow the majority of Georgians and became a Menshevik. When the Georgian Democratic Republic declared independence on 26 May 1918 Orjonikidze was one of five women who signed the declaration, and was elected to the Constituent Assembly.