Career
Born to a Georgian father, of the noble family of Chkheidze, and a Russian mother, Čcheidze entered the Imperial Russian military service and fought on the side of White armies during the civil war in the North Caucasus. In 1921, as part of the defeated White Cossack forces, Chkheidze was evacuated to Lemnos whence he moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1923. He graduated from the Russian Faculty of Law in Prague and then lectured there.
During World World War II, he was active in Russian anti-Nazi underground in Prague, but was arrested by the Soviet SMERSH in 1945 and placed in a Gulag camp from where he was not able to return until 1955.
His memoirs are a valuable first-hand account of the 1917-1955 events in Russia and the Soviet Union. He committed suicide in 1974.
