Jason Kereselidze
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Jason Mathes dze Kereselidze (Georgian: იასონ მათეს ძე კერესელიძე, born 1891 - died May 20, 1923 ) was a Georgian nobleman and one of the prominent figures in the country's anti-Soviet national liberation movement.
A younger brother of General Leo Kereselidze, following the Red Army invasion of Georgia, he was active in the military center of the National Democratic Party of Georgia and the Georgian Independence Committee.[1]
Due to his pro-independence activities, Kereselidze was arrested and executed by the Bolsheviks on May 20, 1923, in Tbilisi, in the area of what is now Vake Park.[2] He was shot alongside numerous other prominent Georgian anti-Soviet figures, such as Kote Abkhazi and Aleksandre Andronikashvili. Kereselidze's last words before execution were to sing Dideba, Georgia's national anthem at the time.[3]
In 2023, Kereselidze was officially recognized as National Hero of Georgia.[4]
- ^ იასონ კერესელიძე, Biographical Dictionary of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, retrieved: October 6, 2024
- ^ იასონ კერესელიძე, Biographical Dictionary of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, retrieved: October 6, 2024
- ^ იასონ კერესელიძე, Biographical Dictionary of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, retrieved: October 6, 2024
- ^ საქართველოს პრეზიდენტის განკარგულება N04/07/02 2023 წლის 4 ივლისი საქართველოს ეროვნული გმირის ორდენით დაჯილდოების შესახებ, Administration of the President of Georgia, 4 July 2023.