The remains of General Giorgi Kvinitadze, Georgia’s National Hero and the commander-in-chief of the Democratic Republic of Georgia and the National Hero, were reburied with full military honors today in the Mtatsminda Pantheon of Tbilisi, symbolically coinciding with the 103rd anniversary of Georgia’s proclamation of itself as the Democratic Republic on May 26, 1918.

The representatives of the Government and Kvinitadze’s descendants attended the ceremony.

Giorgi Kvinitadze was born on August 21, 1874. 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.