Ekaterine Tarkhnishvili-Gabashvili (16 June 1851, Gori – 7 August, 1938, Akhalkalaki, Georgia)

Georgian children’s writer and public figure, member of the Board (Governing Body) of the Society for Spreading Literacy among Georgians from 1882. In 1897-1922 she was the head of the women’s vocational school and in 1872-1905 – the initiator of establishing Women’s Circle and creating its regional branches.