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1. Tsarevich Giorgi: S. Lakoba et al. (eds.), Istoria Abkhazia, p. 219. S. Lakoba, Boeviki Abkhazii v revolyutsii 1905–7, pp. 65–68. S. Lakoba, “Legendarnoe nacholo veka.” Thanks to S. Z. Lakoba for access to his interviews with T. Kapba-Arshba and Kamshisi Gvaramia. For legend of Stalin leading horses with money from the ship: Fasil Iskander, Sandro of Chegem, pp. 202–4. Davrichewy’s piracy, p. 236. Tiflissky Listok, 22 and 24 Sept. 1906; Kavkaz, 24 Sept. 1906; Kavkazskaya Zhizn, 29 Sept. and 6 Oct. 1906; Chernomorsky Vestnik, 22 and 23 Sept. 1906. For the mules of Chiatura, see memoirs of Father Gachechiladze; for Stalin’s horse riding, see his attempt to ride in the 1945 Victory Parade, in Montefiore; for shooting, see earlier memoirs of M. Monoselidze and J. Davrichewy; for robbery of ship Nikolai I, see later chapters on Baku. Koba prank: Arsenidze, p. 220. Stalin greater involvement in robbery: Razhden Arsenidze, interviews nos. 1–3, 103–4, Nikolaevsky box 667, series 279, folder 4–5. Baku Tiflis Conference: GF IML 8.2.1.12.176–83, Said Devdariani. Uratadze, pp. 66–69.