# Konstantin Chkheidze

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'''Konstantin Alexandrovich Chkheidze''' ({{langx|cs|Konstantin Alexandrovič Čcheidze}}, {{lang-ka|კონსტანტინე ჩხეიძე}}, {{langx|ru|Константин Александрович Чхеидзе}}) (19 September 1897 – 28 July 1974) was a [Czech](/source/Czech_people)-[Georgian](/source/Georgian_people)-[Russian](/source/Russian_people) writer, philosopher, and [White émigré](/source/White_%C3%A9migr%C3%A9).

==Biography==
Born to a Georgian father, of the noble family of [Chkheidze](/source/Chkheidze), and a Russian mother, Chkheidze entered the [Imperial Russia](/source/Imperial_Russia)n military service and fought on the side of White armies during the [civil war](/source/Russian_Civil_War) in the [North Caucasus](/source/North_Caucasus). In 1921, as part of the defeated White [Cossack](/source/Cossack) forces, Chkheidze was evacuated to [Lemnos](/source/Lemnos) whence he moved to [Prague](/source/Prague), [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia), in 1923. Chkheidze graduated from the Russian Faculty of Law in Prague and then lectured there. He joined the [Eurasianists](/source/Eurasianists) in the 1920s and emerged as one of their leaders in the 1930s. During [World War II](/source/World_War_II), Chkheidze was active in Russian anti-[Nazi](/source/Nazi) underground in Prague, but was arrested by the [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union) [SMERSH](/source/SMERSH) in 1945 and placed in a [Gulag](/source/Gulag) camp from where he was not able to return until 1955. He was a follower of [Fyodorov](/source/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov)’s philosophy and wrote on Russian society and culture as well as [Caucasian](/source/Caucasus) legends and [Soviet nationalities policy](/source/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union). Chkheidze's memoirs are a valuable first-hand account of the 1917-1955 events in Russia and the Soviet Union. He committed suicide in Prague in 1974.<ref>Stepanov, Nikolay. [http://www.archipelag.ru/geopolitics/osnovi/geopolitics/chheidze/ Константин Александрович Чхеидзе (Konstantin Alexandrovic Čcheidze)]{{Dead link|date=June 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''Russkiy Arkhipelag''. 2008-06-13.</ref><ref>Chinyaeva, Elena (2001), ''Russians outside Russia: The Emigre Community in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938'', pp. 204, 212. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, {{ISBN|3-486-56356-4}}.</ref>

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