According to the government's decision, the Commander-in-Chief of the First Republic of Georgia, General Giorgi Kvinitadze, who died in exile, will be buried in Georgia.
The Prime Minister revealed that the body of General Giorgi Kvinitadze would be transferred from France to Georgia on May 22.
Civil funerals will be held at the Trinity Cathedral from May 22, and on May 26, the remains of Giorgi Kvinitadze will be buried at the Mtatsminda Pantheon.
Giorgi Kvinitadze (real name Chikovani) was born on August 21, 1874. He received military education in Tbilisi and St. Petersburg. Before the establishment of the First Republic of Georgia, from the second half of 1917, he actively participated in forming the Georgian Armed Forces. He made a significant contribution to establishing the Georgian Military School in 1919 and was its first head. From 1918 to 1921, he took an active part in the ongoing hostilities on various fronts. During the Russian-Georgian War of 1921, on February 16, he was reappointed on the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces post.
After the occupation of Georgia by Soviet Russia, General Kvinitadze emigrated with other government members and the command. He lived in France, where he died in 1970.
