Giorgi Kvinitadze
Giorgi Kvinitadze | |
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St. Petersburg | |
Occupations |
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Known for | Deputy Minister of War for the Transcaucasus Federal Government and Commander in Chief of the army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia |
Spouse |
Mariam Makashvili
(m. 1911; died 1960) |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | Maryam d'Abo (granddaughter) |
Giorgi Kvinitadze (
Biography
Born into the family of a colonel of the Russian army in
During
Family
In 1911, Kvinitadze married Princess Mariam Makashvili (August 28, 1889 – April 27, 1960). They had three daughters: Ida, Tamar and Nino. Ida (b. 1912) married (1943) Georgian émigré general Giorgi Chkheidze (1907–1970). Tamar (b. 1913) married (1938) the Georgian émigré Georges Odichelidze (1899–1970), French officer of
Memoirs
Kvinitadze's Russian-language book My Memoirs from the Years of Independence of Georgia, 1917–1921 (Мои воспоминания в годы независимости Грузии, 1917–1921) first appeared in Paris in 1985 and was published in a Georgian translation in 1998. Writing most of the memoir in 1922, a year after Georgia's sovietization, Kvinitadze provides new details and personal observations about the troubled years of 1917–1921. In addition to being a military chronicle written by a participant of those events, Kvinitadze's memoirs are a political commentary, directing harsh criticism at the Mensheviks, accusing them of undermining the state and alienating the Georgian people with their socialist and internationalist rhetoric, incompetence and failure to defend the country against the anticipated foreign intervention.[5]
Along with Zurab Avalishvili’s historical works, Kvinitadze’s memoirs are considered one of the best firsthand accounts of Georgia’s short-lived independence written abroad.[6]
References
- ^ "State Awards Issued by Georgian Presidents in 2003-2015".
- ^ "Georgian Democratic Republic's Commander-in-Chief Reburied in Tbilisi". Civil Georgia. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ "Khvamli Street named after General Kvinitadze". Ministry of Defense of Georgia. 12 April 2006. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2008.
- ^ (in French) Ferrand, Jacques (1983), Familles princières de Géorgie: essai de reconstitution généalogique (1880-1983) de 21 familles reconnues princières par l'Empire de Russie, p. 125. Montreuil, France: J. Ferrand
- Russian Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Jan., 1987), p. 99.
- ISBN 0-7007-1163-5.
External links
- Interview with General Giorgi Kvinitadze, May 1968, RFE/RL. (in Georgian)
Further reading
- Волков С. В. Генералитет Российской империи. Энциклопедический словарь генералов и адмиралов от Петра I до Николая II. Том I. А—К. М., 2009
- Гогитидзе М. Грузинский генералитет (1699—1921). Киев, 2001
- Шабанов В. М. Военный орден Святого Великомученика и Победоносца Георгия. М., 2004