Ana Gruzinsky-GolitsynaW
Ana Gruzinsky-Golitsyna

Princess Ana Gruzinsky-Golitsyna was a Georgian royal princess (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty of Mukhrani branch.

Princess Anastasia of GeorgiaW
Princess Anastasia of Georgia

Princess Anastasia of Georgia was a Georgian princess royal (batonishvili), a daughter of King Heraclius II of Georgia of his third marriage to Darejan Dadiani. She was married into the princely family of Eristavi, former Ducal House of Ksani.

Anton II of GeorgiaW
Anton II of Georgia

Anton II the Great Martyr, born Prince Royal Teimuraz, was a member of the Georgian royal family and churchman. A son of Heraclius II, the penultimate King of Kartli and Kakheti, he was the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 1788 to 1811.

Prince Bagrat of GeorgiaW
Prince Bagrat of Georgia

Bagrat was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the House of Bagrationi and an author. A son of King George XII of Georgia, Bagrat occupied important administrative posts in the last years of the Georgian monarchy, after whose abolition by the Russian Empire in 1801 he entered the imperial civil service. He was known in Russia as the tsarevich Bagrat Georgievich Gruzinsky. He is the author of works in the history of Georgia, veterinary medicine and economics.

Pyotr BagrationW
Pyotr Bagration

Pyotr Bagration was a Russian general and prince of Georgian origin, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars.

Prince Ioane of GeorgiaW
Prince Ioane of Georgia

Ioane was a Georgian prince (batonishvili), writer and encyclopaedist.

Prince Okropir of GeorgiaW
Prince Okropir of Georgia

Okropir known in Russia as Tsarevich Okropir Georgievich Gruzinsky, was a Georgian prince royal (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi Dynasty.

Prince Teimuraz of GeorgiaW
Prince Teimuraz of Georgia

Teimuraz Bagrationi otherwise known as Tsarevich Teimuraz Georgievich was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) and scholar primarily known as an author of the first critical history in Georgian as well as for his work to popularize interest in the history and culture of Georgia and preserve its treasures.

Brothers ZubalashviliW
Brothers Zubalashvili

Brothers Zubalashvili — a family of businessmen and benefactors. The Zubalashvili family gained prominence in the seventeenth century and established themselves as successful merchants conducting business throughout Asia and Europe. They helped Kings Vakhtang VI and Erekle II establish printing presses in Tbilisi in the 18th century. After the Russian annexation of Georgia, the Zubalashvilis developed a profitable trade network that covered Russia, the Ottoman Empire, India, and Persia. In the mid-19th century, they also began establishing the first industrial plants in Georgia.

Ilia ChavchavadzeW
Ilia Chavchavadze

Prince Ilia Chavchavadze was a Georgian public figure, journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of the Georgian national movement in the second half of the 19th century and played a major role in the creation of Georgian civil society during the Russian rule of Georgia. He is Georgia's "most universally revered hero."

Garsevan ChavchavadzeW
Garsevan Chavchavadze

Prince Garsevan Chavchavadze was a Georgian nobleman (tavadi), politician and diplomat primarily known as the Georgian ambassador to Imperial Russia.

Nino ChavchavadzeW
Nino Chavchavadze

Princess Nino Chavchavadze was a daughter of the famous Georgian knyaz (prince) and poet Alexander Chavchavadze and wife of Russian diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov.

David DadianiW
David Dadiani

David Dadiani, of the House of Dadiani, was Prince of Mingrelia, in western Georgia, from 1846 until his death in 1853. A son of Levan V Dadiani, he became de facto ruler of Mingrelia on his father's retirement in 1840. Like his father, David ruled as an autonomous subject of the Russian Empire and served as a major-general of the Russian army. David presided over the frequently heavy-handed efforts to modernize Mingrelia's government, economy, and education. The Russian authorities, citing the Mingrelians' discontent with Dadiani's harsh measures, attempted, but failed to bribe him into resigning his office. David died of malaria at the age of 40.

Konstantin DadianiW
Konstantin Dadiani

Prince Konstantin Dadiani was a Georgian nobleman of the House of Dadiani and general of the Russian Imperial Army. During his nearly four-decade long military career, he fought in the Caucasian, Crimean, and Turkish wars.

Mariam Dadiani (1783–1841)W
Mariam Dadiani (1783–1841)

Mariam Dadiani was the last Queen Consort of the western Georgian kingdom of Imereti as the wife of King Solomon II. She was a daughter of Katsia II Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia. After the Russian conquest of Imereti and Solomon's flight to the Ottoman Empire in 1810, Mariam fell in the hands of the Russian authorities who sent her in exile to Russia proper, where she was known as Maria Katsiyevna Imeretinskaya.

Salome DadianiW
Salome Dadiani

Princess Salomé Dadiani was a Georgian princess, the only sister of Niko Dadiani, the last Prince of Megrelia.

Darejan DadianiW
Darejan Dadiani

Darejan Dadiani, also known as Daria, was Queen Consort of Kakheti, and later Kartli-Kakheti in Eastern Georgia, as the third wife of King Erekle II. She was a daughter of Katsia-Giorgi Dadiani, a member of the princely house of Mingrelia. Darajan married Heraclius in 1750 and their marriage lasted 48 years until his death in 1798; the union produced 23 children. In the final years of her husband's reign, Darejan exerted significant influence on politics and court affairs. She was skeptical of the pro-Russian policies of Heraclius II and his successor, her step-son, George XII, whose progeny she tried to prevent from succeeding to the throne of Georgia. After the Russian annexation of Georgia, Queen Dowager Darejan was deported to Russia proper in 1803. She died in St. Petersburg at the age of 69 and was buried at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Prince David of GeorgiaW
Prince David of Georgia

David Bagrationi, also known as David the Regent, was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili), writer and scholar, was a regent of the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti, eastern Georgia, from December 28, 1800 to January 18, 1801.

Prince Grigol of GeorgiaW
Prince Grigol of Georgia

Grigol was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the house of Bagrationi. A grandson of George XII, the last king of Georgia, and the only son of Prince Ioane of Georgia, he was briefly proclaimed as King of Georgia during a revolt against the Russian rule in 1812. After spending several months in a Russian prison, Grigol joined the Russian military ranks and took part in the 1813 Polish campaign. He is the author of several poems, memoirs, and a compilation of Georgian poetry.

Prince Ilia of GeorgiaW
Prince Ilia of Georgia

Ilia, also known as Elizbar (ელიზბარი), was a Georgian prince royal (batonishvili), a son of George XII, the last king of Kartli and Kakheti, by his second marriage to Mariam Tsitsishvili. After the Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801, Ilia accompanied his mother into exile to Russia. He then received military training and served in the Russian army, fighting with distinction at the battle of Borodino against the French in 1812 and retiring with the rank of colonel in 1823. He had 13 children of his marriage with Princess Anastasia Obolenskaya and his descendants, bearing the surname of Gruzinsky, have survived in the 21st-century Russian Federation.

Platon IoselianiW
Platon Ioseliani

Platon Ioseliani was a Georgian historian and civil servant in the Imperial Russian service.

Prince Iulon of GeorgiaW
Prince Iulon of Georgia

Iulon was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the House of Bagrationi, born into the family of King Heraclius II and Queen Darejan Dadiani. He advanced claim to the throne of Kartli and Kakheti after the death of his half-brother George XII in 1800 and opposed the Russian annexation of Georgia until being apprehended and deported in 1805 to Tula. He died in St. Petersburg and was buried at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Mariam Jambakur-OrbelianiW
Mariam Jambakur-Orbeliani

Princess Mariam Jambakur-Orbeliani was a Georgian noblewoman, philanthropist, educator, public figure and feminist.

Levan V DadianiW
Levan V Dadiani

Levan V Dadiani, of the House of Dadiani, was Prince of Mingrelia, in western Georgia, from 1804 to 1846. Succeeding on the death of his father Grigol Dadiani, he ruled—initially under the regency of his mother Nino from 1804 to 1811—as a loyal subject of the Russian Empire. Levan Dadiani took little interest in the details of government and resigned in favor of his son, David Dadiani, in 1840, remaining a titular Prince of Mingrelia until his death.

Prince Mirian of GeorgiaW
Prince Mirian of Georgia

Mirian was a Georgian prince (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty, born to King Heraclius II and Queen Darejan Dadiani. After Heraclius placed his kingdom under the Russian protectorate in 1783, Mirian entered the Russian army, attaining to the rank of major general. He reconciled with the Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801, departing to St. Petersburg, where he ended his days as a senator of the Empire. Of some literary talent, Mirian translated from Russian and himself composed poetry.

Konstantine Bagration of Mukhrani (1889–1915)W
Konstantine Bagration of Mukhrani (1889–1915)

Prince Konstantine Bagration of Mukhrani was a Georgian nobleman from the House of Mukhrani. A member of the Russian Imperial Guard, Konstantine fought with distinction and died in World War I - actions for which he posthumously received the Order of St. George, the highest military decoration of the Empire. Konstantine was in a brief but controversial marriage with Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, a member of the Russian Imperial Family.

Niko I DadianiW
Niko I Dadiani

Nikoloz "Niko" Dadiani, or Nikolay Davidovich Dadian-Mingrelsky, was the last Prince of Mingrelia from 1853 to 1867. Of the House of Dadiani, one of the leading Georgian noble families, he succeeded on the death of his father, David Dadiani, but he never ruled in his own right; during his minority, the government was run by regency presided by his mother, Princess Ekaterina, and in 1857, Mingrelia was placed under a provisional Russian administration. In 1867, Dadiani formally abdicated the throne and Mingrelia was directly incorporated into the Russian Empire. Dadiani mostly lived in Saint Petersburg, being close to the court. He was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, distinguished himself in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), and retired with the rank of major-general.

Nino, Princess of MingreliaW
Nino, Princess of Mingrelia

Nino was a Georgian princess royal (batonishvili) as a daughter of King George XII of Georgia and princess consort of Mingrelia as the wife of Grigol Dadiani, Sovereign Prince of Mingrelia. After the death of her husband in 1804, Nino was a regent for her underage son, Levan until 1811, and helped bring Mingrelia and Abkhazia, a neighboring principality of her in-laws, under the hegemony of the Russian Empire. In 1811, she retired to Saint Petersburg, where she died at the age of 75.

Alexander OrbelianiW
Alexander Orbeliani

Count Alexander Orbeliani (Jambakur-Orbeliani) was a Georgian Romanticist poet, playwright, journalist and historian, of the noble House of Orbeliani.

Prince Parnaoz of GeorgiaW
Prince Parnaoz of Georgia

Parnaoz was a Georgian prince (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty, the 14th son of Heraclius II, the penultimate king of Kartli and Kakheti, by his third marriage to Queen Darejan Dadiani. Parnaoz tried to challenge the recently established Imperial Russian rule in Georgia and in 1804 headed an unsuccessful insurrection of the Georgian mountaineers in the course of which he was arrested and deported to Russia. Afterwards, he spent most of his life in St. Petersburg, becoming the first Georgian translator of the 18th-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Prince Alexander of GeorgiaW
Prince Alexander of Georgia

Prince Alexander of Georgia (1770–1844) was a Georgian royal prince of the Bagrationi family, who headed several insurrections against the Russian rule in Georgia. He was known as Eskandar Mīrzā (اسکندرمیرزا) in the Persian Empire, Tsarevich Aleksandr Irakliyevich in Russia, and as Alexander Mirza in Western Europe.

Nikolay ShatilovW
Nikolay Shatilov

Prince Nikolay Pavlovich Shatilov was a nobleman and general of the Russian Empire. He was the son of Pavel Nikolaevich Shatilov who also served as a commanding officer. Nikolay Shatilov was responsible for pacifying regional unrest in the Caucasus and initiating several judicial reforms. He also participated in the 1877 Russo-Turkish war and was decorated with several awards. After retiring from service, he went back to Tbilisi where he spent the last years of his life.

Solomon II of ImeretiW
Solomon II of Imereti

Solomon II, of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was the last King of Imereti from 1789 to 1790 and from 1792 until his deposition by the Imperial Russian government in 1810.

Princess Tekle of GeorgiaW
Princess Tekle of Georgia

Princess Tekle was a Georgian princess royal (batonishvili) and poet. She was a daughter of Heraclius II, the penultimate king of Kartli and Kakheti, the wife of Prince Vakhtang Orbeliani, and mother of the Georgian literati, Alexander and Vakhtang Orbeliani.

Ana Gruzinsky TolstoyW
Ana Gruzinsky Tolstoy

Princess Ana Giorgis Asuli Bagration-Gruzinsky was a Georgian royal princess (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty.

Mariam TsitsishviliW
Mariam Tsitsishvili

Mariam, also known as Maria in European sources, was the Queen of Georgia as the second wife and consort of the last King George XII of Georgia.

Prince Vakhtang-Almaskhan of GeorgiaW
Prince Vakhtang-Almaskhan of Georgia

Vakhtang also known as Almaskhan (ალმასხანი) was a Georgian prince royal (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty, born to King Heraclius II and Queen Darejan Dadiani. He distinguished himself in the war with Iran in 1795 and was then active in opposition to his half-brother George XII of Georgia and the newly established Russian administration in Georgia. In 1802 he surrendered to the Russian authorities and spent the rest of his life in St. Petersburg, working on an overview of Georgia's history. In Russia he was known as the tsarevich Vakhtang Irakliyevich Gruzinsky.