Abamelik was a noble family of Armenian

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 origin in the Kingdom of Georgia

Kingdom of Georgia

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, and then in the Russian Empire

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The Abamelik were a non-dynastic patrician family in Tbilisi

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, claiming descent from the Kurdish princes of Agsend that settled in Georgia in 1421. According to the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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(1890-1906), the family attained to the dignity of princes of the 3rd rank when the Georgian crown prince David

David Bagrationi

David Bagrationi also known as David the Regent was a Georgian prince , writer and scholar, was a regent of the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti, eastern Georgia, from December 28, 1800 to January 18, 1801.The eldest son of the last Kartl-Kakhetian, King George XII by his first wife Ketevan...

 (1767-1819) married Helene (1770-1836), daughter of the priest Simon Abamelik, in 1800. The family was officially included in the List of Georgian Princes

Knyaz

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 of the Russian Empire in 1850.

In 1873, Major-General Semyon Abamelik

David Semyonovich Abamelik

David Semyonovich Abamelik was a Russian-Armenian principal, general-major from the noble Abamelik family. He participated to the wars against Napoleon I . Abamelik was awarded by St Anna brilliant order.-Sources:...

 (1815—1888) was granted the right to assume the surname of his late father-in-law, Khristofor Yakimovich Lazarev (1789-1871), for himself and his descendants — the princes Abamelik-Lazarev (Абамелик-Лазаревы). By 1906, both the Abamelik and Abamelik-Lazarev lines were registered in the governorates

Guberniya

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 of Moscow

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, Podolsk

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, and Tula

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