Nestor Kalandarishvili

Nestor Aleksandres dze Kalandarishvili was a Georgian revolutionary socialist and military commander. Born into the lesser Georgian nobility, Kalandarishvili studied at a seminary, where he joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party. During the 1905 Revolution, he led an uprising of the Georgian Socialist-Federalist Revolutionary Party and later became an anarchist. He then participated in the Gurian Republic and was exiled to Siberia after it was crushed. Following the outbreak of the Russian Civil War, he fought an anarchist guerrilla war against the White movement in Siberia. By 1919, he had joined the Red Army, within which he led the defeat of the Russian State. He then renounced anarchism, joined the Russian Communist Party and put down anarchist independent guerrillas in Siberia. He was killed in action while fighting a counterinsurgency against a White uprising.