David Chavchavadze

David Chavchavadze
Born	20 May 1924 (1924-05-20) (age 87) London, England

David Chavchavadze (born May 20, 1924) is an American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian-Russian origin.

Chavchavadze was born in London to Prince Paul Chavchavadze (1899–1971) and Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia (1901–1974), a descendant of a prominent Georgian noble family and the Imperial Russian dynasty.^[1] His father, Prince Paul, was a fiction writer and translator of writings from Georgian into English, and an émigré in the United Kingdom, and then the United States.

Chavchavadze entered the United States Army in 1943 and served during World War II as liaison for the U.S. Army Air Force Lend-Lease supply operations to the Soviet Union. After the war, he entered Yale University where he was a member of the Society of Orpheus & Bacchus, an undergraduate a cappella singing group. He spent more than two decades of his career as a CIA officer in the Soviet Union Division.

After his retirement, Chavchavadze specialized in tracing the nobility of Imperial Russia and authored The Grand Dukes (1989). He also published Crowns and Trenchcoats: A Russian Prince in the CIA (1989) based on his CIA experiences, and translated Stronger Than Power: A Collection of Stories by the Russian author Sandji B. Balykov. As a grandchild of a Russian Grand Duke, he is an Associate Member of the Romanov Family Association.

References

1. ^ "Genealogy". Cape Cod History and Literature.

External links

• Chavchavadze, David. "The artistic legacy of two grandmothers". http://www.katoufs.com/Katoufs%20Article.pdf. Retrieved 2008-05-02. 
• Vladimir F. Wertsman, Georgian Americans. Multicultural America. Every Culture.
• “Chavchavadze, David”. NameBase.
• Chavchavadze, David (1990). Crowns and Trenchcoats. A Russian Prince in the CIA. New York, NY: Atlantic International Publications. pp. 315. 
• Genealogy of David Prince Chavchavadze on Genealogics.org.

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Date of birth	May 20, 1924
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