Kakutsa Cholokashvili

Kaikhosro (Kakutsa) Cholokashvili
Native name
ქაიხოსრო [ქაქუცა] ჩოლოყაშვილი
Birth nameKaikhosro Cholokashvili
Nickname(s)Kakutsa
Born(1888-07-14)14 July 1888
Matani, Russian Empire Russia (now Georgia (country) Georgia)
Died27 June 1930(1930-06-27) (aged 41)
Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
Buried
Allegiance Russian Empire(1909–1917)
Democratic Republic of Georgia(1918–1921)
Service / branchCavalry
Years of service1909–1921
RankColonel
Battles / wars
AwardsGold Sword for Bravery (1916)[1]
Spouse(s)Nino Meghvinetukhutsesi (1913)

Kaikhosro "Kakutsa" Cholokashvili (Georgian: ქაიხოსრო [ქაქუცა] ჩოლოყაშვილი; French: Kakoutsa Tcholokachvili; Russian: Кайхосро [Какуца] Чолокашвили [Челокаев], Kaikhosro Chelokayev; born 14 July 1888 – 27 June 1930) was a Georgian military officer and a commander of an anti-Soviet guerrilla movement in Georgia. He is regarded as a national hero in Georgia.[2]

Born of a noble family, Cholokashvili was a decorated officer of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he served in the ranks of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Following the republic's overthrow in a Soviet invasion in 1921, Cholokashvili, with a band of followers, took to the mountains and fought a guerrilla campaign against the Soviet government in the province of Kakheti. After a failed August 1924 anti-Soviet rebellion, during which Cholokashvili commanded the largest single rebel contingent, he fled to France, where he died of tuberculosis in 1930. His remains were reburied, in a state funeral, from the Leuville Cemetery near Paris to the Mtatsminda Pantheon in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2005. In 2013, he was posthumously awarded the title and Order of National Hero of Georgia.[3]

  1. ^ "Челокаев Кайхосро Иосифович [Chelokayev, Kaikhosro Iosifovich]". Георгиевские кавалеры Великой войны 1914–1918 [Recipients of St. George's Order of the Great War 1914–1918] (in Russian). Federal Archival Agency. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  2. ^ Toria, Malkhaz (2014). "The Soviet occupation of Georgia in 1921 and the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008: historical analogy as a memory project". In Jones, Stephen F. (ed.). The Making of Modern Georgia, 1918–2012: The First Georgian Republic and Its Successors. Routledge. p. 329. ISBN 978-1317815938.
  3. ^ "State Awards Issued by Georgian Presidents in 2003-2015".