Vachnadze was a Georgian

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...

 noble family, a principal line descending from the early medieval Donauri

Donauri

Donauri was a Georgian noble family to which belonged two ruling princes of the eastern province of Kakheti in the ninth century, and which gave origin to the latter-day noble family of Vachnadze, and, possibly, to that of Babadishvili ....

 dynasty of Kakheti

Kakheti

Kakheti is a historical province in Eastern Georgia inhabited by Kakhetians who speak a local dialect of Georgian. It is bordered by the small mountainous province of Tusheti and the Greater Caucasus mountain range to the north, Russian Federation to the Northeast, Azerbaijan to the Southeast, and...

. Their offshoots were the Beburishvili (probably also Babadishvili

Babadishvili

Babadishvili is a Georgian noble family claimed to have sprung off the royal Bagrationi dynasty of Kakheti in the 17th century.Prince Ioann of Georgia reports that the Babadishvili descend from the Kakhetian ruler Imām Qulī Khān , “corrected” by some modern genealogists to Joseph, a supposed...

). The family has produced several notable religious, military and cultural figures.

The Vachnadze fief was centered at the village Kardenakhi. Their princely rank was recognized by 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...

in 1826 and 1850. An unrelated family, originally known as Onanashvili, was enfeoffed with the estate of one of the extinct lines of Vachnadze and allowed to adopt their title and surame in the 18th century.