Kakutsa Cholokashvili
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Kaikhosro "Kakutsa" Cholokashvili 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.
Kaikhosro Cholokashvili
Kakutsa as a boy
Kakutsa Cholokashvili (right) and General Giorgi Kvinitadze (left).
Portrait of Cholokashvili, late 1920s.
The Democratic Republic of Georgia was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to March 1921. Recognized by all major European powers of the time, DRG was
Kakutsa Cholokashvili
…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…
Nikolay Chkheidze, president of the Georgian Provisional Assembly, later the Constituent Assembly
Hall in Tbilisi, where Georgia's independence was proclaimed in 1918
National Council meeting, 12 March 1919
British troops marching in Batumi, 1920