Kakutsa Cholokashvili

Kaikhosro (Kakutsa) Cholokashvili
Native name	ქაიხოსრო [ქაქუცა] ჩოლოყაშვილი
Birth name	Kaikhosro Cholokashvili
Nickname(s)	Kakutsa
Born	(1888-07-14)14 July 1888 Matani, Russian Empire (now Georgia)
Died	27 June 1930(1930-06-27) (aged 41) Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
Buried	Cimetière de Saint-Ouen (1930) Leuville Cemetery (c. 1970) Mtatsminda Pantheon (2005)
Allegiance	Russian Empire(1909–1917) Democratic Republic of Georgia(1918–1921)
Service / branch	Cavalry
Years of service	1909–1921
Rank	Colonel
Battles / wars	World War I Eastern Front Caucasus campaign Battle of Sarikamish Persian campaign Armeno-Georgian War Sochi conflict Red Army invasion of Georgia Kakhet–Khevsureti Rebellion August Uprising
Awards	Gold Sword for Bravery (1916)[1]
Spouse(s)	Nino Meghvinetukhutsesi (1913)

Kaikhosro "Kakutsa" Cholokashvili (Georgian: ქაიხოსრო [ქაქუცა] ჩოლოყაშვილი; French: Kakoutsa Tcholokachvili; Russian: Кайхосро [Какуца] Чолокашвили [Челокаев], Kaikhosro Chelokayev; born 14 July 1888 – 27 June 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.^[2]

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. In 2013, he was posthumously awarded the title and Order of National Hero of Georgia.^[3]