Kakutsa Cholokashvili, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Georgian noble
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Place of Birth: Kakheti, Georgia
About Kakutsa Cholokashvili
- Kaikhosro "Kakutsa" Cholokashvili (Georgian: ???????? [??????] ???????????; French: Kakoutsa Tcholokachvili; Russian: ???????? [??????] ??????????? [????????], Kaikhosro Chelokayev) (July 14, 1888 – June 27, 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.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.
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