Leuville cemetery

Leuville Cemetery (also known as Leuville sur Orge Communal Cemetery) is in the French town of Leuville-sur-Orge, 25 km south of Paris. The 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.

Notable people buried at Leuville-sur-Orge[]

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
, ^[9] Georgian military figure, participant of the revolutionary movement in the Caucasus. Commander of the armored trains of the Georgian People's Guard in 1918–1921. He had the title of "Hero of the Republic" (1918).

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.
Leuville cemetery at Find a Grave