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Bagrationi Dynasty
The Bagrationi dynasty was the ruling family of Georgia. Their ascendency lasted from the early Middle Ages until the early 19th century. In modern usage, this royal line is frequently referred to as the Georgian Bagratids, a Hellenized form of their dynastic name.The origin of the Bagrationi...
of Georgia
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
, both of which received it as the subjects of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
. The name "Gruzinsky" (also spelled Gruzinski, or Gruzinskii) derives from Russian, originally and literally meaning "of Georgia". These families are:
- Princes Gruzinsky ("the Elder House"), an offshoot of the House of MukhraniHouse of MukhraniThe house of Mukhrani is a Georgian princely family, a collateral branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi of which it sprung early in the 16th century, and received in appanage the domain of Mukhrani located in Kartli, central Georgia...
dispossessed of the throne of KartliKartliKartli is a historical region in central-to-eastern Georgia traversed by the river Mtkvari , on which Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, is situated. Known to the Classical authors as Iberia, Kartli played a crucial role in ethnic and political consolidation of the Georgians in the Middle Ages...
in 1726. They descended from Prince Bakar of GeorgiaBakar of GeorgiaBakar was a Georgian prince of the Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi dynasty....
(1699/1700-1750) who had removed to Russia in 1724, and went extinct with the death of Pyotr GruzinskyPyotr GruzinskyPyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky was a Russian artist of Georgian origin known for his paintings of battle scenes from the Caucasus War. He was a scion of the Mukhrani-Gruzinsky branch of the Bagrationi Dynasty that had moved to Imperial Russia in the 18th century.- References : . Russian Biographic...
(1837–1892). The family had estates in the governoratesGuberniyaA guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire usually translated as government, governorate, or province. Such administrative division was preserved for sometime upon the collapse of the empire in 1917. A guberniya was ruled by a governor , a word borrowed from Latin ,...
of MoscowMoscow GovernorateMoscow Governorate , or Government of Moscow, was an administrative division of the Russian Empire, which existed in 1708–1929....
and Nizhegorod, and was confirmed among the princely nobility of Russia in 1833.
- Princes Gruzinsky (Bagration-Gruzinsky; "the Younger House"), an offshoot of the House of KakhetiKingdom of KakhetiThe Kingdom of Kakheti was a late medieval/early modern monarchy in eastern Georgia, centered at the province of Kakheti, with its capital first at Gremi and then at Telavi...
(after 1462) and (after 1744) of Kartli. The title of Prince(ss) Gruzinsky (Serene Prince[ss] after 1865) were conferred upon the grandchildren of the penultimate Georgian king Erekle IIErekle IIErekle II was a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi Dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798. In the contemporary Persian sources he is referred to as Erekli Khan, while Russians knew him as Irakli...
(1720/1-1798) after the Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801. Descendants of Prince Bagrat (1776–1841), grandson of Erekle II and son of the last king of Georgia George XIIGeorge XII of GeorgiaGeorge XII , sometimes known as George XIII , of the House of Bagrationi, was the last king of Georgia from 1798 until his death in 1800...
(1746–1800), still survive in Georgia. The current head of this family, Nugzar Bagration-GruzinskyNugzar Bagration-GruzinskyPrince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky is the head of the deposed House of Gruzinsky and represents its claim to the former crown of Georgia.-Biography:...
(born 1950), claims the legitimate headship of the Royal House of Georgia (also claimed by the line of Bagrations of MukhraniMukhraniMukhrani is a historical lowland district in eastern Georgia, currently within the borders of Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, north of the town of Mtskheta...
) based on male primogeniturePrimogeniturePrimogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn to inherit the entire estate, to the exclusion of younger siblings . Historically, the term implied male primogeniture, to the exclusion of females...
descent from the last king of Georgia. As he has no male issue, Peter Gruzinsky (born 1916), the great grandson of Bagrat's younger brother Ilia (1791–1854) who lives in the Russian Federation, is considered to be a heir presumptiveHeir PresumptiveAn heir presumptive or heiress presumptive is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question...
within the same primogeniture principle.