Prince Bagrat of Georgia

Prince Bagrat of Georgia
Prince Bagrat of Georgia
Prince of Georgia
	St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Burial	Smolensky Cemetery
Spouse	Princess Ketevan Cholokashvili
Issue	Alexander Bagratovich Gruzinsky
House	Bagrationi dynasty
Father	George XII of Georgia
Mother	Ketevan Andronikashvili
Religion	Georgian Orthodox Church
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Bagrat (

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 (Russian: Баграт Георгиевич Грузи́нский). He is the author of works in the history of Georgia, veterinary medicine

and economics. Bagrat is the forefather of the surviving descendants of the last kings of Georgia.

Life in Georgia

Bagrat was born in

Iori in Kakheti.^[1]

Life in Russia

After George XII's death in 1800, the arrival of the Russian rule brought the Bagrationi rule to an end. The members of the Georgian royal family were deprived of their estates and deported to Russia proper. Unlike many of his royal relatives, Bagrat did not take arms against the Russian regime and, in 1803, accepted his exile in

Privy Councillor and Senator of the empire in 1828.^[2]

During his life in Russia, Bagrat composed a continuation of the Georgian history written by his brother

Napoleonic France in 1812. He also authored memoirs and the first Georgian-language book in veterinary medicine, published in St. Petersburg in 1818.^[3]

Family

Prince Bagrat was married to Princess Ekaterine [Ketevan] Cholokashvili (1781 – 30 June 1831), a daughter of Prince Durmishkhan Cholokashvili, sometime bailiff (mouravi) of Pshavi and Khevsureti. She died of cholera in St. Petersburg and was buried at the Smolensky Cemetery. Bagrat and Ekaterina were the parents of ten children, of whom only three reached adulthood:

Prince Spiridon (1800 – died in infancy).
Princess Barbare (Varvara Bagratovna Gruzinskaya) (1804–1870), married Lieutenant-General Prince Dimitri Orbeliani.
Princess Daria (Daria Bagratovna Gruzinskaya) (1808–1809).
Prince Petre (Pyotr Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (1811–1812).
Prince Giorgi (Georgy Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (1812–c. 1816).
Princess Elisabed (Elizaveta Bagratovna Gruzinskaya) (1813–1815).
Prince Nikoloz (Nikolay Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (1816–1833).
Prince Konstantine (Konstantin Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (born 1817).
Prince David (David Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (30 April 1819 – 24 September 1888), an unofficial head of the Georgian royal house (1880–1888). He was married to Anna Alekseyevna Mazurina (11 January 1824 – 10 August 1866), with one son, Spiridon (born 1861).
Prince
Alexander
(Alexander Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (1820–1865).