Conquest, Robert (1991). Stalin: breaker of nations. Viking. стр. 42. ISBN9780670840892. „...the Bolsheviks were suspects in the (still obscure) murder of Prince Chavchavadze, father of the Georgian cultural renaissance, on 28 August 1907: he had spoken out strongly against the revolutionary left.”
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Jones, Stephen F. (2005). Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917. Harvard University Press. стр. 221. ISBN9780674019027. „Bolshevik unpopularity in Georgia was in part due to the widely held suspicion that they had been behind the murder of Ilia Chavchavadze in August 1907.”
Geifman, Anna (1995). Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917. Princeton University Press. стр. 95–96. ISBN9780691025490.
Radu, Michael (2006). Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship: Place, Time and Ideology in Global Perspective. Transaction Publishers. стр. 42. ISBN9781412821711. „...Ilia Chavchavadze, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1907.”