Kakutsa Cholokashvili

Kakutsa Cholokashvili

Kaikhosro Cholokashvili (Georgian: ქაიხოსრო ჩოლოყაშვილი, French manner: Kakoutsa Tcholokhachvili) commonly known as Kakutsa (ქაქუცა, a hypocorism of Kaikhosro) (July 14, 1888 – June 27, 1930) was a Georgian nobleman and military commander, regarded as a National Hero of Georgia. Formerly a Colonel in the armies of Imperial Russia and the Democratic Republic of Georgia and a World War I veteran, he led, in the early 1920s, a guerrilla resistance against the Bolshevik regime established by the Soviet Russian Red Army in 1921. After the unsuccessful 1924 August Uprising against the Soviet Union, in which Cholokashvili commanded the largest single unit of the insurgent fores, he fled to France, where he died of tuberculosis. His remains were moved to the Mtatsminda Pantheon, Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2005.