As the number of supporters for his ideas grew, so did opposition among the leading Social Democrats like the Menshevik Noe Zhordania; their main aims were focused on battling the Tsarist autocracy and a democratic transformation of the Russian empire.
More recently in 1922, it was a refuge of the then exiled Georgian prime minister Noe Zhordania and his government-in-exile who settled there.
Noe Zhordania | Noé Jitrik | Gaspar Noé | Luis Felipe Noé | Obshchenatsional'noe Televidenie | Noe Valley | Lake Mogil'noe | Kenneth W. Noe |
Before his final days in Tbilisi prison cell, he hoped for the chance to emigrate to Leuville-sur-Orge, France, where he would join the Menshevik government of Noe Zhordania in exile.