Victor Vasilis dze Tevzaia (
Georgian: ვიქტორ თევზაია) (1883 – 1932) was a
GeorgianSocial-Democratic politician, diplomat, and economist, specializing in agrarian questions. He also published using pseudonyms, Машинадзе (Mashinadze) and Georgien.[1]
After
Georgia's declaration of independence in 1918, Tevzaia was sent as an envoy to the
People's Republic of Ukraine in August 1918[4] and a month later he became the first ambassador of Georgia in
Kiev.[5][6] In 1919, he was elected to the
Constituent Assembly of Georgia. From 1918 to 1920, he was a member of the central committee of the Georgian Social-Democratic Party, which he left in 1923, in the aftermath of the
sovietization of Georgia. He died in
Tbilisi in 1932, of apparent suicide.[citation needed]