The Akaki Bakradze Society is dedicated to bringing the writer’s ideas into Georgian public discourse and cultivating a new generation of leaders shaped by his principles: an awareness and appreciation of Georgia’s cultural heritage and the responsibility to preserve it; a strong sense of national and civic consciousness; a deep understanding of the country’s historical experience; and a commitment to advancing democratic development through pragmatism, gradualism, and self-reliance.
Today, Georgia’s political and public life suffers from a shortage of such leaders. Akaki Bakradze’s wisdom and moral clarity offer an intellectual foundation for addressing this crisis of leadership and civic life. Since Ilia Chavchavadze, no Georgian thinker and public figure has embodied the dignity and spirit of what we, as Georgians, ought to aspire toward, captured with such clarity what defines our identity and values, what our cultural…
