Sylvester Dzhibladze was a founder of the Social-Democratic movement in the Caucasus and one of Joseph Stalin's teachers. He went to the same seminary as Stalin and had hit his teacher for insulting the Georgian language.[1] He was one of the leaders of the Social-Democratic organisation in Tiflis, Georgia.[2] In July 1903, after spending a period of time in prison, he was banished to Eastern Siberia for three years, together with 15 other political prisoners, including Kurnatovsky, Franchesky and Joseph Djugashvili (Stalin). [3]