 Complete the following phrase:  Eliava was born into an impoverished noble family from western Georgia. He studied law at the Petersburg University in 1903, but was excluded for his involvement in students protests. In 1904, he joined the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and took part in the 1905 uprisings in Tiflis and Kutaisi. In 1911, he was sent into exile to the Olonets Governorate whence he moved to Petersburg and worked for the Pravda newspaper until being deported to Vologda in 1915. After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1917, he chaired the Vologda Ispolkom executive committee and moved to Moscow in December 1918. In 1919, during the Russian Civil War, he was sent to the Turkestan front and, as a member of the Revkom revolutionary committee, helped establish Soviet power in the region. In 1920, he served as Soviet Russias plenipotentiary in Turkey and Iran. During the 