Kote Abkhazi

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Konstantine (Kote) Abkhazi
Kardenakhi, Kakheti, Russian Empire (now Georgia)
DiedMay 20, 1923(1923-05-20) (aged 55)
Tbilisi
NationalityGeorgian
Alma materCadet Corps in Tbilisi.
General-major of Artillery in the Tsar's army (1916) and in the national army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918). Chairman of the Georgian National-Democratic Party
.

Prince Konstantine (Kote) Abkhazi (

National Hero of Georgia.[1]

Early life and career

Konstantine (Kote) Abkhazi was born in the village of Kardenakhi, Kakheti (Eastern Georgia), to a wealthy aristocratic family,[2] the son of the General-major of the tsarist Russian army, Prince Nikoloz (Niko) Abkhazi and Princess Nino née Chavchavadze, the sister of an outstanding Georgian writer and public figure Ilia Chavchavadze.

Abkhazi graduated from the Tbilisi Cadet Corps and the

State Duma of the Russian Empire
for Tiflis.

Revolution

Returning to Georgia, he was reelected the marshal and helped found the

Alexander Andronikashvili, Varden Tsulukidze, Colonel Giorgi Khimshiashvili, Rostom Muskhelishvili, Mikheil Zandukeli, Simon Bagration, Parnaoz Karalashvili, Iason Kereselidze, Ivane Kutateladze, Simon Chiabrishvili, Alexandre Machavariani, Elizbar Gulisashvili, Levan Klimiashvili and Dimitri Chrdileli) were arrested by the GPU
, and were shot for anti-Soviet activities on May 20, 1923. He is quoted to have said prior to the execution:

I’m dying with joy, because I’m given an honor to be sacrificed for Georgia. My death will bring victory to Georgia![3]

Abkhazi's son, Nicholas (1900–1987) and his Shanghai-born spouse Peggy Pemberton Carter (died 1994) moved to Canada and, beginning from 1946, built a well-known "Abkhazi Garden" at Vancouver Island, Victoria, British Columbia.

See also

  • August uprising

Literature

  • (in Georgian) Ushangi Sidamonidze (1997), "Abkhazi, Konstantine". Encyclopedia "Sakartvelo", vol. I, Tbilisi, pp. 256–257.
  • (in Georgian) Journal "Samshoblo", No: 21-22, Paris, 1937.
  • (in Georgian) Journal "Mkhedari", Paris, No: 2, 1929, pp. 22–23.
  • Alexander Mikaberidze (2007), Abkhazi, Constantine. The Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.
  • (in Georgian) Levan Urushadze (2012), "For the Biography of General Konstantine (Kote) Abkhazi". Bulletin of the Georgian National Museum, Series of Social Sciences, No 3(48-B), pp. 230–246.

References

  1. ^ საქართველოს პრეზიდენტის განკარგულება N04/07/02 2023 წლის 4 ივლისი საქართველოს ეროვნული გმირის ორდენით დაჯილდოების შესახებ [1]
  2. Shervashidze dynasty of Abkhazia whose member fled the Ottoman hegemony over Abkhazia to Kakheti, where they were enfeoffed, in 1654, by King Teimuraz I with an estate at Kardebakhi, formerly a possession of the extinct line of the Vachnadze
    house. Their title was recognised by the Russian Senate in 1826, reconfirmed in 1850.
  3. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (April 2008), The Archival Bulletin #1, p. 14 Archived 2009-03-16 at the UK Government Web Archive
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