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IRAKLI GELENAVACHARITY IN ABKHAZIA IN 1900-1917.ACCORDING TO THE GEORGIAN PERIODIC PRESSAt the beginning of XX century one of the most important orientationsof the activity of the Abkhazian intelligentsia was philanthropy. In thisrespect successfully was functioning a mutual aid society and especiallyeffective was the work of “Sokhumi Branch of the Georgian Charity Organization”.The statutory obligation of numerous charity societies was materialand spiritual help of the poverty-stricken and homeless people, amalgamationof people of different professions, promotion of education andculture and culture. Especially distinguished was “The Georgian LiteracySociety” for its achievements in the educational and cultural spheres. Noteworthyare also agricultural union-cooperatives whose aim was introductionof progressive forms of agriculture which accordingly would improvethe economic conditions of the local peasants. Different charity organizationswere also called upon to break a monotonous mode of life inculcatedby the colonial policy of the tsarist regime.352