Prince Bagrat of Georgia
Born	8 May 1776 Tbilisi,Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Died	8 May 1841 (aged 65) St. Petersburg,Russian Empire
Burial	Smolensky Cemetery
Spouse	Princess KetevanCholokashvili
Issue	Alexander Bagratovich Gruzinsky
House	Bagrationi dynasty
Father	George XII of Georgia
Mother	Ketevan Andronikashvili
Religion	Georgian Orthodox Church
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Bagrat (Georgian:ბაგრატი) (8 May 1776 – 8 May 1841) was aGeorgian royal prince (batonishvili) of theHouse of Bagrationi and an author. A son of KingGeorge XII of Georgia, Bagrat occupied important administrative posts in the last years of the Georgian monarchy, after whose abolition by theRussian Empire in 1801 he entered the imperial civil service. He was known in Russia as thetsarevichBagrat Georgievich Gruzinsky (Russian:Баграт Георгиевич Грузи́нский). He is the author of works in thehistory of Georgia,veterinary medicine and economics. Bagrat is the forefather of the surviving descendants of the last kings of Georgia.

Bagrat was born inTbilisi into the family of Crown Prince George, the future kingGeorge XII, and his first wifeKetevan néeAndronikashvili. In 1790, Bagrat, then aged 14, received a princely domain in theKsani valley after his reigning grandfather,Erekle II, dispossessed the defiant Kvenipneveli dynasty of theduchy of Ksani, dividing it into three parts. Other parts of the duchy were granted to Bagrat's elder brotherIoann and uncleIulon. In addition, during the reign of his father George XII (1798–1801), Bagrat receivedKakheti in possession. Around the same time, he became involved in a dynastic feud among the numerous posterity of Erekle II and George XII. In November 1800, Bagrat was one of the commanders of a combined Russo-Georgian force that defeated the joint invasion by theAvar khan Umma and Bagrat's own paternal half-uncleAlexander on theBattle of Niakhura in Kakheti.^[1]

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 inMoscow, which he left the day before the city's occupation by the French troops in 1812, and then inSt. Petersburg, where he would live until his death. He was made achamberlain of the Russian tsarAlexander I in 1818 and became aPrivy Councillor andSenator of the empire in 1828.^[2]

During his life in Russia, Bagrat composed a continuation of the Georgian history written by his brotherDavid, covering the period from the middle of the 18th century to the 1840s. He also compiled a list of Georgians fighting in the Russian ranks againstNapoleonic France in 1812. He also authored memoirs and the first Georgian-language book in veterinary medicine, published in St. Petersburg in 1818.^[3]

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

1. Prince Spiridon (1800 – died in infancy).
2. Princess Barbare (Varvara Bagratovna Gruzinskaya) (1804–1870), married Lieutenant-General Prince DimitriOrbeliani.
3. Princess Daria (Daria Bagratovna Gruzinskaya) (1808–1809).
4. Prince Petre (Pyotr Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (1811–1812).
5. Prince Giorgi (Georgy Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (1812–c. 1816).
6. Princess Elisabed (Elizaveta Bagratovna Gruzinskaya) (1813–1815).
7. Prince Nikoloz (Nikolay Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (1816–1833).
8. Prince Konstantine (Konstantin Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (born 1817).
9. PrinceDavid (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).
10. PrinceAlexander (Alexander Bagratovich Gruzinsky) (1820–1865).

• Gvosdev, Nikolas K. (2000).Imperial policies and perspectives towards Georgia, 1760-1819. New York: St. Martin's Press in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford.ISBN 0312229909.
• Думин, С. В. (1996).Дворянские роды Российской империи. Том 3. Князья (in Russian). М.: Линкоминвест.
• ხანთაძე, შ. (1977).ქსე. ტ. 2 (in Georgian). თბ.: მთავარი სამეცნიერო რედაქცია.

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