Alexander Andronikashvili ( ka, ალექსანდრე ანდრონიკაშვილი) also known as Andronikov (1871 – 1923) was a
Georgian
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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 Russian 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 of the newly independent
Democratic Republic of Georgia
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. 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 along with his associates and shot at the outskirts of Tbilisi on May 19, 1923.
[ Lang, David Marshall (1962), ''A Modern History of Georgia'', p. 241. ]London
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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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1871 births
1923 deaths
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People of World War I from Georgia (country)
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