Alexandre Tarsaidze ( ka, ალექსანდრე ტარსაიძე, ''Alek'sandre Tarsaidze''; , ''Aleksandr Georgievich Tarsaidze'') (1901–1978) was a Georgian- American writer and historian who authored several works on the life in

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, the

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family, the history of Georgia and the Russian Imperial Naval officers. He was born on June 22, 1901 in

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, in the family of Giorgi Tarsaidze, the first Georgian ophthalmologist. His uncle was the famous Georgian writer Rafiel Eristavi. Tarsaidze was a student of the Imperial Naval Academy in Petrograd at the time of the 1917 revolutions. In 1918, he returned to his native

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, which declared independence on May 26, 1918, and worked with the Allied High Commissioner, Colonel William N. Haskell in Tiflis until being forced into exile by the

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. He then worked for the

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-based

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and emigrated to the United States in 1923. He was employed by several cosmetic and jewelry enterprises including the Matchabelli Perfumes run by the émigré Georgian Prince Georges V. Matchabelli. During

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, he served in the

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. He then was associated with Prince

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in the hotel business in

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and worked as a

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and

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agent until his death in New York in 1978. Tarsaidze's main works are: Морской корпус за четверть века, 1901-1925 (''The Naval Corps for a Quarter of the Century, 1901-1925''; NYC, 1944), ''

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s and Presidents. The Story of a Forgotten Friendship'' (NYC, 1958), Четыре мифа о Первой мировой (''Four Myths about the

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''; NYC, 1969), ''

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: Wife before God'' (NYC, 1977).Register of the Alexandre Georgievich Tarsaidze Papers, 1648-1977

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. Accessed on May 3, 2008.

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