Leuville cemetery

Leuville-sur-Orge is a French town 25 km south of Paris whose cemetery is a burial ground to many prominent Georgian political emigres who had left country after the Soviet invasion of Georgia of 1921. Among them are the members of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Exile.

Leuville cemetery

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Country	France

Notable people buried at the Leuville-sur-Orge Cemetery

• Razhden Arsenidze,[1] Georgian minister
• Akaki Chkhenkeli,[2] Georgian minister
• Kakutsa Cholokashvili,[3] National Hero of Georgia (until 2005)
• Evgeni Gegechkori.,[4] Georgian minister
• Vlasa Mgeladze, Georgian politician
• Noe Ramishvili,[5] president of first Georgian government
• Grigol Robakidze, Georgian writer and public figure
• Kalistrate Salia, Georgian historian and politician
• Irakli Tsereteli,[6] Georgian minister
• Mikheil Tsereteli, Georgian historian and politician
• Grigol Uratadze,[7] Georgian politician
• Noe Zhordania,[8] president of second and third Georgian governments

Notes

1. (French) Misha Arsénidzé.
2. (French) Akaki Tchenkéli.
3. (French) Kakoutsa Tcholokhachvili.
4. (French) Evguéni Guéguétchkori.
5. (French) Noé Ramichvili.
6. (French) Irakli Tsérétéli.
7. (French) Grisha Ouratadzé.
8. (French) Noé Jordania.

Sources

• Georgian and French documents from Nametia Goguadze, Nikoloz Oragvelidze and Victor Nozadze (1971), Prof. Jean Bret and his students (2000), Luka Melua (2004).
• (French) Le "carré géorgien" du cimetière communal de Leuville-sur-Orge.