Vakhtang Jobadze - Historian of Georgian art (17.03.1917 Khashuri, Georgia - 2007 USA), Professor of California University, Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia (1966), who lived and worked in the USA. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1940 he graduated from the Facult […]
Alexander Kartveli (Kartvelishvili) 1896 - 1974 - One of the pioneers of the US aviation, an American aircraft designer. He was born in Tbilisi. In 1914 Alexander Kartveli graduated from an artillery school. During the years he spent participating in WW I Alexander Kartveli took an intere […]
«Prince Matchabelli» - George Matchabelli (1885 – 1935) - Politician, public figure and perfumer. He graduated from the Classical School of Nobilities in Tbilisi and Academy of Mines in Berlin. He was in Belgium when WW I broke out. He moved to Germany where he founded “Georgian Liberatio […]
US Army General John Shalikashvili (full name John Malkhaz David Shalikashvili) - four-star general in the U.S. Army. Born in Warsaw on 27.06.1936 in the family of Georgian Prince Dimitri Shalikashvili and Countess Maria (Missy) Alexandrovna Ridiger-Beliaeva). At the age of 16 he came to […]
George Balanchine (Jorj Balanchini, Giorgi Balanchivadze) (1904-1983) - American Ballet Master, founder of Classical American Ballet, son of Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze. He was born in Saint Petersburg. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatrical College of the Petrograd Mariin […]