Abstract:
The 1921 Russian-Georgian war is one of the most significant and
interesting facts in the Modern history of Georgia. Military events of the
war and especially the battles carried out after the Georgian army’s
departure from Tbilisi have not been deliberately studied in modern
Georgian historiography. The most important encounter occurred on the
Osiauri field east of Khashuri during March 4-6. The clash began with
good-planned and successful Georgian assaults which brought the
Russian army under the danger of siege and destruction. Although on the
night of March 5, the National Guards of Georgia left its positions which
made the units of the Georgian regular army retreat and the battle ended
with failure and the loss of the Likhi range.
The sources of the article are as follows: the magazine of military
activities of the 11th Russian Red Army units discovered by us in the
Central Historical Archive of Georgia, two orders launched before the
battle by the commander-in-chief of the Georgian army – Giorgi
Kvinitadze published in the Georgian magazine “Warrior“ (Mkhedari) in
Paris in 1934 and information provided in the memories of Georgian
military-political authorities.
