Zviad Gamsakhurdia
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Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State University, and writer w
Gamsakhurdia in 1989
Leaders of the Georgian independence movement in the late 1980s, Zviad Gamsakhurdia (left) and Merab Kostava (right)
Gravestone of President Gamsakhurdia in Tbilisi.
Gamsakhurdia on a 2019 postage stamp commemorating his would-be 80th birthday
Tengiz Kitovani
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Tengiz Kitovani was a Georgian politician and military officer who was a prominent military figure in the Georgian Civil War when he commanded the Georgian National Guard.
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
…from the urban intelligentsia and former Soviet nomenklatura, as well as from his own ranks. In early 1992 Gamsakhurdia was overthrown by warlords Tengiz Kitovani, Jaba Ioseliani and Tengiz Sigua, two of which were formerly allied with Gamsakhurdia. Gamsakhurdia was forced to flee to Chechnya, where he was greeted…
Kitovani in 1991