In the newspaper "Iveria", Ilia Chavchavadze periodically published "Internal Review", in which a significant place was allocated to issues of Russia's economic policy in Georgia. What was the role of the Russian system of management of the state property in the realization of this policy. From this standpoint, the "Internal Review" of October 1883, is particularly interesting. It gives a detailed analysis of the "Memorandum" of the needs of the Georgian people, handed in to the Minister of the State Property, visiting Tbilisi. The author expressed his own, rather critical, opinion about the attitude of the Ministry toward the problem of the construction of the Kakhetian railway, about the delimitation of the landed property, about the leasing of state lands to peasants, use of forests, excise on vodka, etc.