Alexander Andronikashvili ( ka, ალექსანდრე ანდრონიკაშვილი) also known as Andronikov (7 October 1871 – 19 May 1923) was a
Georgian military commander and
anti-Soviet
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resistance leader.
Of an old
noble family
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, Andronikashvili served in the
Imperial Russia
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n army and was promoted to the rank of general in
World War I
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. He then served for the General Staff of the
military
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of the newly independent
Democratic Republic of Georgia
The Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG; ka, საქართველოს დემოკრატიული რესპუბლიკა, tr) was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia (country), Georgia, which exist ...
. After the republic's
fall to the Soviets (1921) he became one of the leaders of an
underground independence movement. Andronikashvili was arrested by the
Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission ( rus, Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, r=Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, p=fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə tɕrʲɪzvɨˈtɕæjnəjə kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə, links=yes), ...
along with his associates and shot at the outskirts of Tbilisi on 19 May 1923.
[ Lang, David Marshall (1962), ''A Modern History of Georgia'', p. 241. ]London
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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. In 2023, he was posthumously awarded the title and Order of
National Hero of Georgia.
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Imperial Russian Army generals
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Aleksandre Aleksandre ( ka, ალექსანდრე) is a Georgian masculine given name, an equivalent of Alexander
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People of World War I from Georgia (country)
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