Argutinsky-Dolgorukov

Mkhargrdzeli-Arghutashvili ( _ka. მხარგრძელი-არღუთაშვილი), later known as Argutinsky-Dolgorukov ( _ru. Аргутинский-Долгоруков) was an Armeno-Georgian noble family whose double surname indicates their descent from Arghut (died 1506) and the family’s purported origin from the medieval house of Mkhargrdzeli (Zachariads). "Dolgorukov" is a direct Russian translation of "Mkhargdzeli", literally meaning in Georgian "a long-arm". The founder of the family, Arghut, established himself in Lori, northern Armenia, then under Georgian control, at the end of the 15th century. His descendants were received among the lower-class nobility (aznauri) of Georgia, and enfeoffed of Sanahin, where the family’s dynastic abbey was located. Under King Heraclius II of Georgia (r. 1744-1798), the Arghutashvili family was officially recognized as descended from the Mkhargrdzeli and elevated to a princely rank (Georgian: tavadi, Russian: knyaz), a title which was confirmed by the Imperial Russian government on March 6 1819, December 15 1838 and November 14 1857. [ru icon cite web
title =Аргутинские-Долгоруковы
publisher = Russian Biographic Lexicon
url =http://www.rulex.ru/01010428.htm
accessdate =2008-01-17] Bagrationi, Ioane (1768-1830). [http://geogen.ge/indexen.php?id_menu=12&id_menu_up=2&lang=en&id_let=34&abc=1 Arghutashvili] . "The Brief Description of the Georgian Noble Houses". Retrieved on January 23, 2008.]

In contrast to the commonly accepted view, the Russian historian Pyotr Dolgorukov (1816-1868) advanced a hypothesis of the family’s Rurikid origin and attempted to trace the common ancestry of Argutinsky-Dolgorukov and the Rurikid house of Dolgorukov to the 12th-century prince Yuri Dolgoruki. [ru icon [http://www.rulex.ru/01050560.htm Долгоруковы и Долгорукие] . Russian Biographic Lexicon. Retrieved on January 31, 2008.]

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