グルジア・ソビエト社会主義共和国
Chikvaidze was born on January 19, 1932, in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, the only child of Tamar Chikvaidze (née Kobiashvili), an economist and David Chikvaidze, a highly regarded performer of Georgian national choreography, in later years, serving as deputy director of the Georgian philharmonic.