Dzhermen Gvishiani
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Dzhermen Mikhailovich Gvishiani (24 December 1928, Akhaltsikhe – 18 May 2003, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher, sociologist, management theorist and scientific administrator.
Dzhermen Gvishiani was born the son of Mikhail Maksimovich Gvishiani, a Georgian and an Armenian mother. His forename was composed of the first part of Felix Dzerzhinsky's surname (Dzher) followed by the first part of Vyacheslav Menzhinsky's surname (men). Both were former chairmen of the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) for whom his father worked.[1]
In 1948 he married Lyudmila Gvishiani (Kosygina), a librarian and the only daughter of the Soviet Prime Minister (by 1948 - Minister of Finances) Alexei Kosygin.
His son, Alexei Gvishiani, is a prominent Russian geoinformatics scientist. Granddaughter, Ekaterina Semenikhina, art collector and Russian honorary consul in Monaco.
