Trained at a military college in St. Petersburg, he joined the Imperial Russian army in 1878.
During World War I, Kazbegi was a deputy commander of the Caucasian Grenadier Artillery Brigade.
After Georgia's declaration of independence in 1918, he served for the Georgian Ministry of War and headed its administrative division.
[2][3] After Kazbegi's emigration, his wife Ekaterine Chichua and their younger son Nika stayed in Soviet Georgia.
Nika Kazbegi (1908–1983) made a career as a set designer and won the title of Honored Artist of Georgia in 1951.