Zakaria Bakradze
Zakaria Bakradze was a Georgian military officer who served as a general in the Democratic Republic of Georgia and later the Polish Army.
Family and education
Zakaria Bakradze was born to the family of Dimitri Bakradze, a prominent Georgian historian. He graduated from the Tiflis Cadet Corps, the Moscow Infantry Cadet School, the Officer Rifle School.Military career
He began his military career in the Imperial Russian army and distinguished himself during the First World War. After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1918, he joined the national army and was a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Defence. The Soviet invasion of Georgia in 1921 forced him into exile in Poland, where he received further training in the Higher War School. He then served in the Polish Army as Commander of Infantry of the Polish 15th Infantry Division.- Member of the Chinese campaign of 1900-1901
- Member of the Russian-Japanese War
- Member of the First World War. In 1914 he was promoted to colonel for military distinction.
- Armeno-Georgian War, 1918