Kakutsa Cholokashvili
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Cholokashvili in France in the 1920s
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| Native name | ქაიხოსრო [ქაქუცა] ჩოლოყაშვილი |
| Birth name | Kaikhosro Cholokashvili |
| Nickname(s) | Kakutsa |
| Born |
July 14, 1888 Matani, Russian Empire (now Georgia) |
| Died | June 27, 1930 (aged 41) Passy, Haute-Savoie, France |
| Buried at | Cimetière de Saint-Ouen (1930) Leuville Cemetery (c. 1970) Mtatsminda Pantheon (2005) |
| Allegiance |
Russian Empire Democratic Republic of Georgia |
| Service/branch | Cavalry |
| Years of service | 1909–1921 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles/wars |
World War I Georgian–Armenian War Sochi conflict Red Army invasion of Georgia Kakhet–Khevsureti Rebellion August Uprising |
| Awards | Gold Sword for Bravery (1916) |
| Spouse(s) | Nino Meghvinetukhutsesi (1913) |
Kaikhosro "Kakutsa" Cholokashvili (Georgian: ქაიხოსრო [ქაქუცა] ჩოლოყაშვილი; French: Kakoutsa Tcholokachvili; Russian: Кайхосро [Какуца] Чолокашвили [Челокаев], Kaikhosro Chelokayev) (July 14, 1888 – June 27, 1930) 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.
Born of a noble family, 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 campaign against the Soviet government in the province of Kakheti. After a failed August 1924 anti-Soviet rebellion, during which Cholokashvili commanded the largest single rebel contingent, he fled to France, where he died of tuberculosis in 1930. His remains were reburied, in a state funeral, from the Leuville Cemetery near Paris to the Mtatsminda Pantheon in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2005.
Kakutsa Cholokashvili was born into an aristocratic family of Prince Ioseb Cholokashvili at the family estate at Matani in the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti (then part of the Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire). The contemporary Russian administrative documents spelled his surname "Челокаев" (Chelokayev). Cholokashvili attended the Gymnasium for Nobility in Tiflis (Tbilisi), which was then directed by the historian Ekvtime Takaishvili. In 1909 he was drafted into the Russian military. He served in the 16th Tver Dragoon Regiment and returned to Georgia with the rank of podporuchik in 1912.
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