- Teymuraz Bagration
Prince Teymuraz K. Bagration (
August 21 ,1912 –April 10 ,1992 ) was a Georgian-Russia n nobleman and an émigré in theUnited States where he served as President of theTolstoy Foundation , a New York-based charitable organization.He was born at
Pavlovsk ,Imperial Russia , into the prominent aristocratic family. His father, Prince Konstantin Bagration-Mukhransky (1889-1915), a member of the Mukhrani branch of theBagrationi family, formerly a royal dynasty of Georgia, was anImperial Russian Army officer and was killed inWorld War I . Teymuraz's mother,Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890-1979) was a member of theRomanov Dynasty of Russia.Teymuraz Bagration left Russia after the 1917 Revolution. During
World War II , he served in the Royal Yugoslav Army. After the war, he emigrated to the U.S. and joined Tolstoy Foundation in 1949. He became Executive Director in 1979 and led the organization from 1986 until his death at New York in 1992. He was known for his efforts to resettle Georgian, Russian and other ethnic refugees from theSoviet Union andEast Europe an countries. He was also involved in the resettlement of refugees fromVietnam ,Tibet ,Cuba ,Uganda , and other countries. As a member of CARE and Interaction, a coalition of more than 100 charitable organizations, Bagration was instrumental in assisting displaced persons who came to the U.S.On July 5, 2007, Bagration's unique archive was presented by his wife, Princess Irina, to the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. [ge icon [http://www.nplg.gov.ge/ge/events/event.html?id=232 თეიმურაზ ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანსკის არქივი ეროვნულ ბიბლიოთეკას გადაეცა] . "National Parliamentary Library of Georgia: News". July 11, 2007.]
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External links
* [http://www.tolstoyfoundation.org/bagration.html Biography of Teymuraz K. Bagration] . The
Tolstoy Foundation website. Retrieved onMay 7 ,2007 .
* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/georgia/bagrat11.html Bagration’s genealogy] . Retrieved onMay 7 ,2007 .
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