GARIBALDI GIUSEPPE

Garibaldi Giuseppe - national hero of Italy , one of the leaders of the struggle for the independence and unification of the country , general 
In 1833 he joined the liberation struggle . For more than 10 years, he fought for the independence of the South American republics. After returning to his homeland, in 1848-49, at the head of a detachment of volunteers he formed, he fought against the Austrians in the Austro-Italian War .

In 1849, he was one of the leaders of the protection of Rome from French troops . In 1859, during the Austria-Italy-France war , he successfully commanded the Alpine rifle corps . In 1860, he led the march of the "Thousand" in the Kingdom of Naples. In 1862 and 1867, he tried to liberate Rome from the power of the Pope by armed means. He participated in the Austro-Italian war in 1866 . In 1870-71, during the Franco-Prussian War , he commanded the French Vosges Army .

Giorgi Varazashvili

biography

On the grave of Giorgi Dimitris dze Varazashvili, the national hero of Italy, it is written: "Passerby, stop!" Here rests the patriot who shed his blood for your liberation. He gave you free Italy."

Giorgi Varazashvili was born on May 12, 1914 in Jimith village (Gurjaani municipality), in a poor peasant family. Although his hand was injured when he was young and half of his index finger was cut off, he still sculpts different figures from clay. He was six years old when his sister Sona Varazashvili took him to her family in Tbilisi.

Giorgi studied at the Fourth Tbilisi Labor School, after graduating from which he continued his studies at the preparatory courses at the Central Board of the Union of Education Workers of Georgia.

On June 30, 1940, he successfully defended his diploma work "Sportsman" in front of a special commission from Moscow led by sculptor Boris Yakovlev. Photos of this statue were printed in the then newspapers: "Zaria Vostoka" (Tbilisi) and "Vechernaya Moskva" (Moscow).

In 1940, Giorgi Varazashvili was drafted into the Red Army. He was assigned to the 1st Training Battery of the 299th Artillery Regiment of the 194th Rifle Division.

In mid-January 1942, during one of the skirmishes with the enemy, the artillerymen of the 299th regiment were retreating and found Giorgi Varazashvili and his two friends already gone. They decided to spend the night in one of the villages and were captured by German scouts on the way. 

He escaped from captivity  at the beginning of 1943, but in the same year the Germans arrested him again and took him to a concentration camp, from where he escaped again and joined the partisans of Bryansk region.

In 1943 he was still in captivity in fascist concentration camps (Yugoslavia, Italy). In July 1944, fate met the Italian partisans. On his way home from the partisan camp in the province of Treviso, to the village of Miro-Fronto, Giovano Liesi took with him five captured prisoners thrown into the forest, among whom was Giorgi Varazashvili. 

The fugitives spent five days in the hospitable family of Lies. In the meantime, Giovanni Liesi talked to Fares, one of the commanders of the Catholic partisan brigade "Piave", to accept the Soviet prisoners in the squad.