23 Facts About Ivan Dumbadze

Ivan Dumbadze attended the Kutaisi classical gymnasium, after which he entered the Junker Infantry School in Tiflis on September 30,1869.

In 1875 Ivan Dumbadze was transferred to the 162nd "Akhaltsikhe" Infantry regiment, where in 1876 he was promoted to podporuchik.

Ivan Dumbadze took part in the Russo-Turkish War, after which he was promoted to poruchik.

In 1879 Ivan Dumbadze was assigned to the office of the military governor, the commander of the military district of Batumi.

In total, Ivan Dumbadze spent nine years in frontline service against Georgian insurgents.

In 1887 Ivan Dumbadze was assigned to the 3rd Caucasus Native Druzhina, in which he was appointed the chairman of the court-martial of that regiment.

On May 26,1903, Colonel Ivan Dumbadze assumed the command of the 16th Infantry Regiment, and remained at this position through October 15,1907.

Meanwhile, an independent contemporary encyclopedic biographer of Ivan Dumbadze states that he personally performed functions of judicial institutions, making judgments, even "interfering in family quarrels" to resolve them, calling this a "patriarchal" style of government.

In violation of both the civil laws and the norms of an officer's honor Ivan Dumbadze challenged a civilian, a local journalist Pervukhin to a duel, he bragging: "Now I'll get rid of him without a warrant of deportation".

Meanwhile, under the threat of a forced closing of local newspapers or jailing of their editors, Ivan Dumbadze required mandatory publication of materials he sent them.

Ivan Dumbadze provided full support to the Black Hundreds and their propaganda.

Ivan Dumbadze enforced obligatory reading and wider distribution of their newspapers like Russkoye Znamya and Veche.

Ivan Dumbadze ordered him to subscribe to abovenamed black-hundredist newspapers, and after Pyasecki refused, Ivan Dumbadze issued him an ultimatum to either join the Union of Russian People or leave the city, and this 72-year-old nobleman was expelled.

Ivan Dumbadze admitted to publicly insulting an officer senior in rank to him, as wella as other acts of insubordination, among them insulting the Governor of Taurida, General Vassily Novitsky, who had originally entrusted Ivan Dumbadze with the power of supreme military commandant of Yalta.

Novitsky acting as the senior official in the region in the absence of Ivan Dumbadze, found no legal grounds for Ivan Dumbadze's expulsion of some persons, and allowed them to return to the Crimea.

Finally, in 1910 Ivan Dumbadze insulted the Governing Senate, the supreme legislative, judicial, and executive body of the Russian Empire, directly subordinated to the emperor.

Senate was considering one of his civil cases at that time, and Ivan Dumbadze did not pay the stamp fee when he sent his solicitation there.

Ivan Dumbadze was receiving death threats from the revolutionary parties, who offered him to resign or be killed.

Several monarchist publications claim variously that Ivan Dumbadze was either "scratched" or "suffered ear damage".

In retaliation, Ivan Dumbadze called his troops to lay siege to the dacha.

Ivan Dumbadze imposed on the inhabitants of Yalta the obligatory reading of the Black Hundreds' newspapers.

On May 31,1907, Ivan Dumbadze was promoted to Major General.

At this position Ivan Dumbadze received several foreign decorations, including the Persian Order of the Lion and Sun, the Bukhara orders of "Rising Star" and of "Golden Star", the Greek Order of the Saviour and the Montenegrin Order of Prince Daniel.