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Alexander was born to Prince Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani and Princess Ketevan née Argutinsky-Dolgorukov in the village of Mchadijvari, Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire. Educated at Nikolaevsky Cavalry School, he entered the Russian military service in 1874 and took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878).
George Bagration of Mukhrani, Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli (Georgian: გიორგი ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანელი) or Prince Georgi Alexandrovich Bagration-Mukhranski (28 July [O.S. 16 July] 1884 – 29 September 1957) was a Georgian nobleman, and a titular head of the House of Mukhrani, a collateral branch of the ...
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The earliest Georgian forms of the dynastic name are Bagratoniani, Bagratuniani and Bagratovani, changed subsequently into Bagrationi. These names as well as the Armenian Bagratuni and the modern designation Bagratid mean "the children of Bagrat" or "the house of/established by Bagrat", Bagrat being a given name of Iranian origin. The origins of th...
Early dynasty
The Bagrationi family had grown in prominence by the time the Georgian monarchy (Caucasian Iberia) fell to the Sassanid Persian Empire in the 6th century, and the leading local princely families were exhausted by Arab attacks. The rise of the new dynasty was made possible by the extinction of the Guaramids and the near-extinction of the Chosroids, the two earlier dynasties of Iberia with whom the Bagratids extensively intermarried, and also by the Abbasid preoccupation with their own civil wa...
Golden Age
This unified monarchy maintained its precarious independence from the Byzantine and Seljuk empires throughout the 11th century, flourished under David IV the Builder (1089–1125), who repelled the Seljuk attacks and essentially completed the unification of Georgia with the re-conquest of Tbilisi in 1122. With the decline of Byzantine power and the dissolution of the Great Seljuk Empire, Georgia became one of the pre-eminent nations of the Christian East, her pan-Caucasian empire stretching, at...
Downfall
The invasions by the Khwarezmians in 1225 and the Mongols in 1236 terminated Georgia’s "golden age". The struggle against the Mongol rule created a dyarchy, with an ambitious lateral branch of the Bagrationi dynasty holding sway over western Georgia (Imereti). There was a brief period of reunion and revival under George V the Brilliant (1299–1302, 1314–1346), but the eight onslaughts of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur between 1386 and 1403 dealt a great blow to the Georgian kingdom. About a...
In the Russian Empire, the Bagrationis became a prominent family of aristocrats. The most famous was Prince Pyotr Bagration, a great-grandson of King Jesse of Kartli who became a Russian general and hero of the Patriotic War of 1812. His brother Prince Roman Bagration also became a Russian general, distinguishing himself in the Russo-Persian War (1...
Queen Tamar of GeorgiaOct 20, 2019 · The Bagrationi (sometimes Hellenized as Bagratid) dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Georgia for over a millennium. This dynasty was founded during the Middle Ages and ruled the country until the early part of the 19th century, when its last king was overthrown by the Russians. Nevertheless, this was not the end of the Georgian royal house, as ...
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David Bagration of Mukhrani (born 24 June 1976), who wed Ana Bagration-Gruzinsky (born 1976), daughter of the head of the Kakheti an branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, Prince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, in Tbilisi on 8 February 2009 at the Tbilisi Sameba Cathedral. Prince David and Princess Anna's son, Giorgi Bagration Bagrationi was born in 2011.
- Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani
- Tenure
- 30 October 1977-16 January 2008
- Head of the Royal House of Georgia (disputed)
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H.R.H. Prince Juan (Ioane) De Bagration-Mukhrani The founder of the Georgian Foundation, H.R.H. Prince Juan (Ioane) Bagration-Mukhrani is a member of the Georgian Royal Family, and the descender of the Bagrationi and Borbon Royal Dynasties. In 2014, Prince Juan decided to return to Georgia, his homeland, as he had always wished.
