Bacar III

He was the eldest son of King Kartli Vakhtang VI from his first marriage. He spent the first years of his life in the fatherland, helping his father in the struggle for the throne. In fact, Kartli ruled under the name of Shah-Nawaz III from 1716 to 1719 during the absence of his father, who, according to some sources, was taken prisoner by the Persians.

In 1719, Vakhtang returned from Persia and ruled Georgia together with Bakar until 1722, when the Persian shah gave Kartli to the Kakheti king Konstantin, and Vakhtang and Bakar, after a fruitless struggle for the throne, left for Russia in about 1724, where they settled in the Georgian colony in Moscow .

Unable to return to Georgia, he accepted Russian citizenship. On November 30, 1729, with the rank of lieutenant general, he was appointed chief of artillery of the Artillery Office in Moscow and the last artillery teams located in the district. He was also in the diplomatic service.

Twice, in 1736 and 1742, he was on business trips in Astrakhan and Kizlyar , with secret orders of the Russian government for political relations with the Highlanders and Kabardians, and since 1743 remained almost without a break in Moscow.

Bakar took an active part in the restoration of Georgian printing. Around 1740, he opened a printing house of Georgian church books at his house in the village of Vsesvyatsky near Moscow, in which, in 1743, on his initiative, he printed the complete Georgian Bible, which is now known as the Bakar Bible , as well as various church books.

He had connections with Russian scientists ( V.N. Tatishchev , J. De Lil ), provided information about the history of Georgia.

In 1749, Bakar, at his own request, left the service and, together with his family, was about to return to Georgia, but he became ill, and died in Moscow. He was buried in the Sretensky church of the Don monastery . His wife Anna Georgievna and younger brother George are buried there.

His wife, Princess Anna Georgievna and two sons, the Princes of Georgia: Alexander and Leon, remained the heirs of the vast estates granted to him in Russia.

He was married to Anna Georgievna, nee Princess Eristova , daughter of Prince George Eristavi-Aragvi (1706-1779).

Children:

• Alexander (1726-1791)
• Dmitry (1727-1745)
• Stepan (1729-1744)
• Leon (1739-1763)
• Elizabeth (1712? - 1786), wife of Prince Nikolai Ivanovich Odoevsky, son of Prince I.V. Odoevsky .

His eldest son, Tsarevich Alexander Bakarovich, married to Kantemir , but was rejected; he married the granddaughter of Prince A. D. Menshikov and left offspring who entered into marital unions with prominent nobles of that time. In 1724, the village of Lyskovo was granted to Bakar Vakhtangovich with a volost, which by inheritance belonged to his descendants. The Lyskovsky estate was managed and owned by the eldest son Georgy Aleksandrovich Gruzinsky (Prince Gruzinsky, the Volga Tsar, the leader of the nobility in Nizhny Novgorod, the head of the Nizhny Novgorod militia of 1812, the landowner of the Makaryevsky Fair ) from 1786 to 1852, and then the daughter of Prince. Gruzinsky - Anna Georgievna Tolstaya, sister of Prince Gruzinsky - Daria Alexandrovna, married Trubetskoy, the mother of the Decembrist Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy lived in Nizhny Novgorod.

His Grace Prince George Alexandrovich, his son - John; his mother, Daria Alexandrovna (nee Menshikova, the granddaughter of an associate of Tsar Peter the Great) and her sister Daria Alexandrovna (married to Trubetskaya, the mother of the Decembrist), were buried in the family tomb of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the city of Lyskova, Nizhny Novgorod Region.

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