List of Georgian people associated with the Democratic Republic of Georgia
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This is an incomplete alphabetical list of the Georgia
n people active in the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia
(DRG), 1918-1921.
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
n people active in the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia
Democratic Republic of Georgia
The Democratic Republic of Georgia , 1918–1921, was the first modern establishment of a Republic of Georgia.The DRG was created after the collapse of the Russian Empire that began with the Russian Revolution of 1917...
(DRG), 1918-1921.
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- Aslan-Beg AbashidzeAslan-Beg AbashidzeAslan-Beg Abashidze was a Muslim Georgian nobleman and general in the service of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Like his brother Memed Abashidze, he was one of the principal champions of pro-Georgian orientation in the largely Muslim region of Adjara, heavily contested during and immediately...
, General - Kote AbkhaziKote AbkhaziPrince Konstantine "Kote" Abkhazi , was a Georgian military officer and politician. During the Imperial Russian rule, he was a general in the tsar's army, and a recognized leader of the liberal nobility of Georgia. After the Sovietization of Georgia, he emerged as one of the leaders of an...
, General - Stepane AkhmeteliStepane AkhmeteliStepane Akhmeteli was a Georgian military commander.Akhmeteli received his military education in Sumy and became an officer in the Imperial Russian army. He was awarded for his service during the Russo-Japanese war and World War I. He met the Russian revolution of 1917 in the capacity of...
, General - Shalva Aleksi-MeskhishviliShalva Aleksi-MeskhishviliShalva Alexi-Meskhishvili was a Georgian jurist and politician who served as Minister of Justice of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1919....
- AmbrosiAmbrosiAmbrosius was a Georgian religious figure and scholar who served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1921 to 1927...
, Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia - Alexander AndronikashviliAlexander AndronikashviliAlexander Andronikashvili also known as Andronikov was a Georgian military commander and anti-Soviet resistance leader.Of an old noble family, Andronikashvili served in the Imperial Russian army and was promoted to the rank of general in World War I. He then served for the General Staff of the...
, General - Razhden ArsenidzeRazhden ArsenidzeRazhden Arsenidze was a Georgian jurist, journalist, and politician.He was involved with the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and sided with its Menshevik wing in 1903...
, Member of ParliamentParliamentA parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which...
for the Social Democratic Party - Zurab AvalishviliZurab AvalishviliZurab Avalishvili was a Georgian historian, jurist and diplomat in the service of the Democratic Republic of Georgia . He was also known as Zurab Davidovich Avalov in a Russian manner....
, historian, diplomatist
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- Alexandre ChkheidzeAlexandre ChkheidzeAlexandre Chkheidze, also known under his Polish name of Aleksander Czcheidze , was a Polish-Georgian military officer. He served with the rank of Colonel in the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Georgia during the short period of its independence following World War I...
, Colonel, later Major General in the Polish service - Nikolay ChkheidzeNikolay ChkheidzeNikoloz Chkheidze was a Georgian Menshevik politician who helped to introduce Marxism to Georgia in the 1890s and played a prominent role in the Russian and Georgian revolutions of 1917 and 1918....
- Akaki ChkhenkeliAkaki ChkhenkeliAkaki Chkhenkeli was a Georgian Marxist politician and publicist who acted as one of the leaders of the Menshevik movement in Russia and Georgia....
- Kakutsa CholokashviliKakutsa CholokashviliKaikhosro Cholokashvili commonly known as Kakutsa was a Georgian nobleman and military commander, regarded as a National Hero of Georgia...
, Colonel, National Hero of Georgia
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- Ioseb Dadiani, MP from the National Democratic Party
- Seit DevdarianiSeit DevdarianiSeit Devdariani was a Georgian philosopher and political activist who was executed during Stalin's Great Purge.Devdariani graduated from the Tiflis theological seminary in 1898. He was involved in Social Democratic movement since the early 1900s. During the Russian Revolution of 1917, he was a...
, MP from the Social Democratic Party
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- Revaz GabashviliRevaz GabashviliRevaz Gabashvili was a Georgian politician and writer involved in the independence movement and revolutionary journalism in the early 20th century....
, author, MP from the National Democratic Party - Konstantine GamsakhurdiaKonstantine GamsakhurdiaKonstantine Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian writer and public figure, who, along with Mikheil Javakhishvili, is considered to be one of the most influential Georgian novelists of the 20th century...
, writer, diplomatist - Nestor Gardapkhadze, General
- Ioseb Gedevanishvili, General, Social Federalist Party
- Evgeni GegechkoriEvgeni GegechkoriEvgeni Gegechkori was a Georgian politician and Social Democratic revolutionary.He first entered the leftist student movement in 1903 during his studies at the Moscow University and soon joined the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party...
, politician, diplomatist - Ivane GomarteliIvane GomarteliIvane Gomarteli was a Georgian physician, political figure, and author involved in the social-democratic movement early in the 20th century....
, Menshevik politician - Elizbar Gulisashvili, Colonel
- Giorgi GvazavaGiorgi GvazavaGiorgi Gvazava was a Georgian jurist, writer and politician; one of the founding members of the Georgian National Democratic Party....
, MP from the National Democratic Party
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- Iason Javakhishvili, MP from the National Democratic Party
- Ivane JavakhishviliIvane JavakhishviliIvane Javakhishvili was a Georgian historian whose voluminous works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia...
, historian, MP - Artem JijikhiaArtem JijikhiaArtem Jijikhia was a Georgian military officer who served in the armies of the Russian Empire and Democratic Republic of Georgia. He was executed during Stalin’s Great Purge....
, General
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- Parnaoz Karalashvili, Colonel
- Meliton Kartsivadze, MP from the Social Democratic Party
- Giorgi Kazbegi, retired general and public figure
- Ivane KazbegiIvane KazbegiIvane Kazbegi was a Georgian soldier, who served, successively, in the Imperial Russian, Georgian and Polish armies....
, general - Leo KereselidzeLeo KereselidzeLeo Keresselidze or Kereselidze was a Georgian military figure, politician and journalist involved in the Georgian national movement against the Russian and later Soviet domination....
, general - Giorgi KvinitadzeGiorgi KvinitadzeGiorgi Kvinitadze was a Georgian military commander who rose from an officer in the Imperial Russian army to commander-in-chief of the Democratic Republic of Georgia...
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- Shalva Maglakelidze, government official, later general in the Nazi German service
- Abel MakashviliAbel MakashviliAbel Makashvili also known as Avel Gavrilovich Makaev was a Georgian prince and soldier who served successively in the Russian, Georgian and Azerbaijani militaries and was killed by the Bolsheviks upon their conquest of Azerbaijan in 1920.Born of an old Georgian noble family, Makashvili...
, general - Giorgi MazniashviliGiorgi MazniashviliGiorgi Mazniashvili was a Georgian general and one of the most prominent military figures in the Democratic Republic of Georgia...
, General - Rostom Muskhelishvili, Colonel
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- Levan Natadze, MP from the Social Democratic Party
- Niko NikoladzeNiko NikoladzeNiko Nikoladze was a notable Georgian publicist, pro-Western enlightener, and public figure primarily known for his contributions to the development of Georgian liberal journalism and his involvement in various economic and social projects of that time.He was born in the village of Didi...
, journalist, Honorary Chairman of the National Democratic Party
- Pirtskhalava Samson, MP from the Social Federalist Party
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- Kristine Sharashidze, MP from the Social Democratic Party
- Petre Surguladze, politician from the National Democratic Party
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- Ekvtime TakaishviliEkvtime TakaishviliEkvtime Takaishvili was a Georgian historian, archaeologist and public benefactor....
, historian, MP from the National Democratic Party - Alexandre Tsereteli, MP from the Social Federalist Party
- Erekle Tsereteli, Colonel
- Irakli TsereteliIrakli TsereteliIrakli Tsereteli was a Georgian politician, one of the leaders of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party and later the Georgian Mensheviks....
, MP from the Social Democratic Party - Mikheil TsereteliMikheil TsereteliPrince Mikheil G. Tsereteli was a Georgian historian, philologist, sociologist and public benefactor, Dr.Sci., Professor....
, politician, former anarchist - Svimon Tsereteli, Colonel
- Vasil TsereteliVasil TsereteliVasil Tsereteli was a distinguished Georgian physician, journalist and public benefactor. He was born in a village Tskhrukveti , in the family of Prince Giorgi Tsereteli. His brother was Professor Mikheil Tsereteli, a famous Georgian historian and public benefactor...
, MP from the National Democratic Party - Varden TsulukidzeVarden TsulukidzeVarden Tsulukidze was a Georgian military commander and anti-Soviet resistance leader.Of a noble family, Tsulukidze served in the Imperial Russian army and was promoted to the rank of major-general in World War I...
, General