Career
Akhmeteli received his military education in Sumy (now Ukraine) and became an officer in the Imperial Russian army. He was awarded for his service during the Russo-Japanese war and World War I. He met the Russian revolution of 1917 in the capacity of colonel of the Russian army. During Georgia"s short-lived independence, Akhmeteli was promoted to major-general.
He commanded an army corps, then a People"s Guard in Tiflis and finally the border troops during the Soviet invasion in 1921.
After sovietization, he was arrested by the Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation and deported to Moscow. He was killed in prison in Ryazan, but officials reported his death of "typhus".
He was executed during Joseph Stalin"s Great Purge.