Dmitry Aleksidze

Dimitri "Dodo" Aleksandres dze Aleksidze (; 8 March 1910 – 4 December 1984) was a Georgian theatre director and pedagogue. A leading figure of Soviet Georgian theatre who also worked extensively in Ukraine, he directed at the Rustaveli Theatre and the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi and at the Ivan Franko Theatre in Kyiv, and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.

Early life and education Aleksidze was born on 8 March 1910 in Tiflis, the son of the poet Mariam Tkemaladze-Aleksidze, known by the pen name "Marijani". For his Franko Theatre production of Oleksandr Korniychuk's Memory of the Heart, he received the Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1974 to 1984 he was chairman of the Theatrical Society of Georgia. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1969) Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1971) People's Artist of the Abkhaz ASSR (1975) People's Artist of the USSR (1976) Shota Rustaveli State Prize of the Georgian SSR (1985, posthumous) Order of Lenin Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour Order of Friendship of Peoples (1980) Order of the October Revolution

Personal life Aleksidze's son Giorgi Aleksidze was a noted choreographer, and his son Aleksandre was a literary scholar. Aleksidze died in Tbilisi on 4 December 1984 and was buried at the Didube Pantheon.