Sprawa powrotu do Polski emisariuszy gruzińskiego rządu emigracyjnego Szalwy Beriszwilego oraz Dawita Erkomaiszwilego jesienią 1930 roku
The Case of the Return to Poland of the Emissaries of the Georgian Government in Exile, Shalva Berishvili and Davit Erkomaishvili in the Autumn of 1930

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the history of the return from Turkey to Poland of Georgian emigrants who, as emissaries of the Georgian government in exile, secretly entered the territory of Soviet Georgia in the summer of 1930 to pursue illegal political activity. The mission was the result of the joint work of the representatives of the Georgian emigration in Paris and the Polish authorities, in particular the Branch II of the General Staff of the Polish Army. The members of the expedition were tasked with re-establishing contact with Georgia by creating a communication network. The installation of the communications center provided that the emissaries would remain in Georgia for a longer period, but their too sudden return (after only two months of stay) aroused the suspicions of the Polish authorities. The situation was additionally complicated by the fact that the emissaries, after leaving the territory of Soviet Georgia, fell into the hands of the Turkish authorities. In the conditions of improving relations between Ankara and Moscow, there was a risk that the Turkish authorities would hand over the Georgians to the Soviet side. It is not fully known what prompted the Turks to release Georgian emissaries who managed to get to Istanbul. Georgian emissaries were convinced that they had performed all the tasks entrusted to them, unlike the Polish side, which did not help in their liberation from the Turkish arrest. For their part, Polish factors suspected that Georgian emissaries were reckless with the tasks entrusted to them, which made the situation more complicated.

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