Alexander Chavchavadze (general)

Not to be confused with the poet, also called Alexander Chavchavadze

Alexander Chavchavadze (Georgian: ალექსანდრე ჭავჭავაძე; 4 July 1870 – 1930) was a Russian-Georgian aristocrat and military officer, opposed to the communist regime.

Biography

Alexander Chavchavadze was born in Tbilisi, Imperial Russia, the son of Zakhary Gulbatovich Chavchavadze. Prince Alexander joined the Page Corps in Saint Petersburg. Appointed adjutant to the governor of the Caucasus in 1905, he became a commander in the Savage Division during the World War I. Sent back to Georgia after the Russian Revolution, he soon joined the army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia but left it after the country's integration into the Soviet Union.

Stuck in Georgia while his children fled to Western Europe with his first wife, Marie Rodzianko, he remarried in 1922 to Olga Grigorievna Soukhomlina. Arrested in February 1930 for counter-revolutionary activities, he was executed after July.