Bagrationi, Bagrat Georgievich

Born on May 8 ( 19 ), 1776 in Tbilisi in the family of Crown Prince George (1746] –1800), future Tsar George XII (1798–1800), and his first wife Ketevan Papunovna (nee Princess Andronikashvili ) (1754–1782). Grandson of King Kartli and Kakheti Irakli II .

In 1790, the 14-year-old Bagrat obtained the princely domain in Ksan Valley from his grandfather, Heraclius II. Heraclius II expelled the family of Kvenipneveli , who ruled Ksan eristavstvo , and divided the principality into three parts. Other parts of Eristavst were given to the princes John and Yulon , the elder brother and uncle of Bagrat. In the reign of his father, the Kartli-Kakheti king George XII , Bagrat was taken over by Kakheti . Around the same time, he began to participate in dynastic enmity among the numerous descendants of Heraclius II and George XII . In November 1800, Tsarevich Bagrat was one of the commanders of the combined Russian-Georgian army, who won the battle with the Avars on the banks of the river. Iori in Kakheti .

In December 1800, the seriously ill Georgian king George XII died, appointing his eldest son David XII as his successor. The following 1801, the Russian Empire announced the annexation of Eastern Georgia and the abolition of imperial power in the Kartli-Kakheti kingdom . Members of the Georgian royal dynasty were deprived of their estates and deported deep into Russia. Unlike his many relatives, Tsarevich Bagrat did not come up with arms against the Russian regime and in 1803 was taken to Moscow .

October 12, 1801 Tsarevich Bagrat was awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 1st degree ^[1] .

He was assigned a pension of 10 thousand rubles, and in 1804 a benefit of 150 thousand rubles was issued for the purchase of the estate. In 1812, the day before Moscow was occupied by the French army, Bagrat left the city and left for Nizhny Novgorod. Then the prince lived until his death on May 8 ( 20 ), 1841 in St. Petersburg . In 1818, the Russian emperor Alexander I made Bagrat Georgievich his chamberlain . In 1828, the Tsarevich became Privy Councilor and Senator of the Russian Empire .

During his stay in Russia, Bagrat Georgievich wrote a continuation of Georgian history, written by his older brother David , covering the period from the mid-18th century to the 1840s. He also compiled a list of Georgians fighting in the ranks of the Russian army against Napoleonic France in 1812. Bagrat was the author of memoirs and the first Georgian language book on veterinary medicine, published in St. Petersburg in 1818.

He was married to Princess Ekaterina Cholokashvili ( 1781 - 1831 ), the daughter of Prince Durmishkhan Cholokashvili, Mouravi Pshavi and Khevsureti . August 30, 1805 was awarded the Order of St. Catherine 2nd degree. She died of cholera in St. Petersburg and was buried in the Smolensk cemetery . Bagrat and Catherine had ten children, and of whom only three have come of age:

• Prince Spiridon Bagratovich Georgian ( 1800 - died in infancy)
• Princess Varvara Bagratovna Gruzinskaya (1804-1870), wife of Lieutenant General Prince Dmitry Orbeliani ( 1797 - 1868 )
• Princess Daria Bagratovna of Georgia (1808-1809)
• Prince Peter Bagratovich of Georgia (1811-1812)
• Prince George Bagratovich of Georgia (1812-1816)
• Princess Elizabeth Bagratovna of Georgia (1813-1815)
• Prince Nikolai Bagratovich of Georgia (1816-1833)
• Prince Konstantin Bagratovich Georgian (born 1817)
• Prince David Bagratovich of Georgia (1819–1888), unofficial head of the Georgian royal house of Bagration ( 1880–1888 ), was married to Anna Alekseevna Mazurina (1824–1866), from whom she had a son, Spiridon (born 1861).
• Prince Alexander Bagratovich of Georgia (1820-1865)

• Bagrat Georgievich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Dumin S.V. Noble clans of the Russian Empire. T 3. Princes. - M .: Linkominvest.
• Gvosdev Nikolas K. Imperial policies and perspectives towards Georgia, 1760-1819. - New York: St. Martin's Press in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford. - ISBN 0312229909 .