18 Facts About Giorgi Kazbegi

Giorgi Kazbegi was a Georgian nobleman and general in the Imperial Russian service.

Giorgi Kazbegi is an author of military and historical reports, including an account of his 1874 reconnaissance mission to the then-Ottoman held Georgian lands with sketches of the region's medieval Christian monuments.

Giorgi Kazbegi had two brothers, Dimitri and Gabriel, and a sister, Elisabed.

Giorgi Kazbegi was married to Elisabed, daughter of Prince Alexander Maghalashvili.

Giorgi Kazbegi outlived his wife and all three of his sons.

Giorgi Kazbegi graduated from the General Staff Academy StPetersburg in 1870 and was dispatched, in the rank of major, to the Caucasian Grenadiers Division.

In 1874, Giorgi Kazbegi spent three months on a reconnaissance mission to the historical southwestern Georgian districts around Batum, which were under the sway of the Ottoman Empire at that time.

Giorgi Kazbegi left a valuable account of his travels to these hitherto little explored lands, accompanied by sketches of medieval Georgian churches and monasteries.

Giorgi Kazbegi was then, successively, in command of the 153rd Derbent Infantry Regiment and the 79th Kurin Infantry Regiment.

Giorgi Kazbegi was appointed Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Fortress and promoted to major-general on October 29,1892.

Giorgi Kazbegi then served as a Quartermaster general of the Warsaw Military District from March 27,1897, to July 3,1899, and a commandant of the Ivangorod Fortress from July 3,1899, to June 23,1902.

Giorgi Kazbegi was promoted to lieutenant-general on January 1,1901, and served as a commandant of Warsaw Fortress from June 23,1902, until January 25,1905, when he was placed in charge of the Vladivostok Fortress.

Giorgi Kazbegi served in this capacity during the Russian Revolution of 1905.

Giorgi Kazbegi responded to a revolutionary upheaval in Vladivostok with a combination of diplomacy and force.

Giorgi Kazbegi did not immediately disperse the demonstrating crowds, persuaded rebellious garrison troops to return to their barracks and then called in Ussuri Cossack detachments to restore order.

The American socialist activist William English Walling reports an incident in which General Giorgi Kazbegi was confronted by the Russian tsar Nicholas II:.

Giorgi Kazbegi then returned to his native Georgia, where he was elected, from 1908 to 1918, a chairman of the Society for the Spreading of Literacy Among Georgians, a leading Georgian cultural institution of that time.

Giorgi Kazbegi was awarded an Order of the Crown of Romania in 1899.