Nino Dadeshkeliani a Georgian

Georgian people

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 author, was the daughter of General Prince Alexander Dadeshkeliani

Dadeshkeliani

Dadeshkeliani or Dadishkeliani was an aristocratic family from the mountainous western Georgian province of Svaneti. They ruled the Principality of Svaneti from the 1720s to 1857....

 and Princess Eristavi

Eristavi

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. Her father, an inspector of State Forests, was assassinated in 1909.

During World War I

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 Dadeshkeliani joined the Russia

Russia

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n Army, and served with the 4th Tartar Regiment. She drove an ambulance on the Austria

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n front before being wounded in 1916.

After the war, Dadeshkeliani lived in Georgia

Georgia (country)

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 and served in the Constituent Assembly

Constituent Assembly of Georgia

The Constituent Assembly of Georgia was a national legislature of the Democratic Republic of Georgia which was elected in February 1919 to ratify the Act of Independence of Georgia and enact the Constitution of 1921...

 of the Democratic Republic of Georgia

Democratic Republic of Georgia

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. However, when Soviet Russia

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 took control of the country in March, 1921 the family moved to Paris

Paris

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. An account of Dadeshkeliani's wartime experiences, Princess in Uniform, was published in 1934.