1832 Georgian plot (Georgian:1832 წლის შეთქმულება,romanized:1832 ts'lis shetkmuleba) was apolitical conspiracy involvingGeorgianroyalty andnobility to restoreGeorgianstatehood and itsBagrationimonarchy through anassassination of the Russian imperial administration.
Eastern Georgian monarchy of theKingdom of Kartli-Kakheti wasannexed by theRussian Empire in 1801, breaking the terms of theTreaty of Georgievsk. Members of the royal Bagrationi dynasty were deported to the Russian provinces, and Russian control was acknowledged in 1813 by theTreaty of Gulistan. The Georgians, unsatisfied with the Russian rule, yearned for the removal of Russian dominance and the return of their royal dynasty. The goal of independence was kept alive principally byPrince Okropir of Georgia,[1] a son of the last eastern Georgian monarch,George XII. Okropir and other Georgians held gatherings of Georgian students inMoscow andSt. Petersburg, trying to inspire them with patriotic feeling towards their country under Russian rule. It resulted in creation of a secret society inTbilisi whose main goal was the re-establishment of an independent kingdom under the dethroned Bagrationi. Okropir himself visited Georgia in 1830, and held talks with the principal conspirators, who included members of Georgian aristocrats from theOrbeliani andEristavi princely houses, as well as the philosopherSolomon Dodashvili. The plot was also supported by the Georgians from western Georgia, i.e. from the Russian-abolishedKingdom of Imereti as well as the members of theHouse of Shervashidze that ruledAbkhazia.
Most of the Georgian conspirators were not liberal republicans, but rather monarchists and nationalists. It was proposed to invite the Russian commander-in-chief in Georgia together with other members of their administration to a grand ball in Tbilisi and at a given signal they would all be assassinated. The Georgians would then seize theDaryal Pass to prevent Russian reinforcements, andPrince Aleksandre of Georgia, son of the Georgian kingErekle II would return fromPersia to be proclaimed king of Georgia.
The ball at which the Russian officers and administration members were to be killed was scheduled for 20 November 1832, but it was unexpectedly postponed, first to 9 December, then to 20 December. Early in December the whole affair was revealed to the authorities by one of the conspirators, Prince IesePalavandishvili, and all of them were arrested. Ten of the accused conspirators were sentenced to death but later reprieved and deported to distant Russian provinces instead, largely because of their aristocratic status.[2] The 1832 plot, though unsuccessful, would play an important role in the future national liberation movement that Georgians would seek to organize more fruitfully.[3]
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