Giorgi Tsulukidze

Giorgi Tsulukidze

Prince Giorgi Tsulukidze ( _ka. გიორგი წულუკიძე, _ru. Георгий Давидович Цулукидзе) (? – 1923) was a Georgian military officer and anti-Soviet resistance leader.

Of a noble family, Tsulukidze served in the Imperial Russian army. During World War I, he was promoted to the rank of major-general and commanded a brigade in the 5th rifle division from 1916 to 1917. On January 7, 1916, Giorgi Tsulukidze was awarded the Order of St. George (Fourth Degree). He then served in the military of a newly independent Democratic Republic of Georgia after whose fall to the Soviets (1921) he was involved in an underground independence movement. Tsulukidze was arrested by Cheka along with his associates and shot at the outskirts of Tbilisi on May 19 1923. [ru icon Javakhishvili, Niko (2003), Грузины под Российским Флагом: Грузинские военные и государственные деятели на службе России в 1703-1917 ("Georgians under the Russian Banner"), p. 157. Tbilisi State University Press.]

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