Everything about Giorgi Kvinitadze totally explained
Giorgi Kvinitadze (
Georgian: გიორგი კვინიტაძე) (
1874–
1970) was a
Georgian general and one of the most prominent military leaders of the
Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Born in
1874 in
Dagestan, his real surname was Chikovani. In
1884, he entered
Tiflis Cadet Corps, and then continued his education at St Constantine Infantry School,
St Petersburg. He served later in
Vladikavkaz and
Poland. After having fought in the
Japanese war (
1904–
1905), he graduated, in
1910, from the
General Staff Academy and was enlisted in the
Caucasian Military District headquarters as a captain. During the
World War I, in
1916 he was promoted to colonel and appointed a chief of staff of the 4th Caucasian Riffle Division. In
1917, Kvinitadze, now major general, served as a Deputy Minister of War for the provisional Transcaucasus Commissariat. The following year, he retired, however, due to a conflict with the
Menshevik party leadership. During a brief border war with
Armenia (December
1918), he served again in the capacity of Chief of Staff. In
1919, he led a Georgian division that suppressed a
pan-Turkist revolt in the
Akhaltsikhe province, and occupied on April 20 1919 hitherto
Turkish-held
Artvin. The same year, he established the
Tbilisi Junkers School, the first Georgian military educational institution. In
1920, he prevented the
Bolshevik attackers from capturing the School, and later successfully defended the Georgian borders from the
Soviet Russian Red Army (Action of the Red Bridge, May 1920). During the
Soviet invasion of
1921, he was appointed the Commander-in-Chief of the National Armed Forces. After Georgia’s defeat in the war in March 1921, he'd to leave for
France, where he died on August 7
1970. He was buried at the Georgian Cemetery of
Leuville-sur-Orge.
He had three daughters
- Ida, who married the Georgian general Chkheidze
- Tamar, married to the prominent Georgian general Ilia Odishelidze
- Nino, who married the Dutchman d’Abo; they're the parents of Maryam d'Abo.
His memoirs
My Memoirs from the Years of Independence 1917–1921 were published in
Russian in
1985 in
Paris (МОИ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ В ГОДЫ НЕЗАВИСИМОСТИ 1917–1921. YMCA-PRESS, 1985, Paris).
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