- Ioane Bagrationi
Ioane Bagrationi ( _ka. იოანე ბაგრატიონი) (
16 May ,1768 ,Tbilisi , Georgia, –15 February ,1830 ,Saint Petersburg , Russia) was a Georgian prince (batonishvili ), writer and encyclopedist.A son of George XII, the last king of
Kartl-Kakheti kingdom, eastern Georgia, by his first wifeKetevan Andronikashvili , Ioane commanded an avant-garde of a Georgian force annihilated by the Persian army at theBattle of Krtsanisi in1795 .Following the battle, the kingdom entered a period of economic crisis and political anarchy. To eradicate the results of a Persian attack and to overcome the retardation of the feudal society, Prince Ioane proposed on
10 May ,1799 , a project of reforms of administration, army and education. This project was, however, never materialized due to the weakness of George XII and a civil strife in the country. In1800 , he commanded a Georgian cavalry in the joined Russian-Georgian forces that defeated his uncle,Alexandre Bagrationi , and theDagestan i allies at the battle of Niakhura.Upon the death of George XII, Kartl-Kakheti was incorporated into the expanding
Russian Empire , and Ioane was deported to Russia. He settled inSaint Petersburg where he wrote most of his works with a didactic encyclopedic novel "Kalmasoba" (1817 -1828 ) being the most important of them.He is also an author of a naturalist encyclopedia (
1814 ), a children encyclopedia (1829 ), a Russian-Georgian dictionary, a Georgian lexicon, and of several poems.His manuscripts were discovered in
1861 by a Georgian scholar,Dimitri Bakradze , who published them in an abridged version in1862 .He married in
1787 , Princess Ketevan Tsereteli (1775-1832), and had the only son,Grigol Bagrationi .References
*David M. Lang, Prince Ioann of Georgia and His "Kalmasoba", "American Slavic and East European Review", Vol. 11, No. 4 (Dec., 1952), pp. 274-287
*"Soviet Georgian Encyclopedia", vol. 5, pp 188-189. Tbilisi, 1980 (in Georgian)External links
* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/georgia/bagrat1.html The Bagration dynasty]
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