Vakhtang Kikabidze

Vakhtang Konstantinovich Kikabidze ( vakht’ang k’ik’abidze; 19 July 1938 – 15 January 2023), also known as Buba was a Soviet and Georgian actor, singer-screenwriter, producer, composer and politician who served in the Parliament of Georgia from 2020 until his death. Personal life Vakhtang Kikabidze was born on 19 July 1938 in Tbilisi, the then-capital of Soviet Georgia. His father Konstantin was born into a noble family in Kartli, while his mother was Manana Bagration-Davitishvili, a descendant of King Alexander I of Kakheti. At just 4 years old, he lost his father, who went missing during the 1942 Battle of the Kerch Peninsula. From 1959 to 1965, he studied at the Tbilisi State University, with second courses in 1961–1963 at the Institute of Foreign Languages of Tbilisi. Vakhtang Kikabidze was married to Irina Kebadze until her death in 2021. Together, they had one son, Konstantin, and two grandsons, Vakhtang Jr. (Vato) and Ioane. Vakhtang's wife had a daughter named Marina from a previous marriage to her first husband Guram Sagaradze. Death Kikabidze died on 15 January 2023, at the age of 84, from brain cancer and kidney failure.