Levan Razikashvili (1895-1923) was a Georgian

Georgia (country)

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 military officer and victim of Soviet

Soviet Union

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 repressions.

He was born into the family of the Georgian poet Luka Razikashvili, better known by his pseudonym

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 Vazha-Pshavela

Vazha-Pshavela

Vazha-Pshavela is the pen-name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka P. Razikashvili , a classic of the new Georgian literature.- The biography :...

. Razikashvili graduated from the Tbilisi

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 Gymnasium for Nobility and joined the Social-Federalist Party during the Russian Revolution of 1917

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. Later, he served to the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia

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 (1918-1924). After the Soviet takeover of Georgia in 1921, he was appointed a militsiya

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 chief in the Pshavi

Pshavi

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 district, which was a scene of an anti-Soviet guerrilla revolt. Razikashvili was suspected by the Bolshevik

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 government to have sympathized with the insurgents who were led by Kakutsa Cholokashvili

Kakutsa Cholokashvili

Kaikhosro Cholokashvili commonly known as Kakutsa was a Georgian nobleman and military commander, regarded as a National Hero of Georgia...

, Razikashvili's erstwhile friend. After the rebel leaders managed to escape into Chechnya

Chechnya

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 in September 1922, Razikashvili was arrested on the charges of "participation in banditism." A group of Georgian writers attempted a mediation and urged the Soviet official Sergo Ordzhonikidze to prevent the son of Vazha-Pshavela from being executed, but to no avail. Razikashvili was shot by the Cheka

Cheka

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in February 1923.