Giorgi Mikhailovitch Sharvashidze

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Mikhail
Prince of Abkhazia
Girogi Shervashidze's stamp.jpg
In 1996, the Abkhazian post issued a commemorative stamp for Prince Giorgi.
Reign1866–1918
Predecessor Mikhail
Successor Alexander
Born1846
Sukhumi
Died1918 (aged 71-72)
Burial
SpouseElena Erastovna Andreevskaya
Names
Giorgi Sharvashidze
House Sharvashidze
Father Prince Mikhail Sharvashidze
MotherPrincess Alexandra Dadiani

Prince Giorgi Mikhailovitch Sharvashidze (b. 1846, d. 1918), was titular Prince of Abkhazia.

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Biography

Born in Sukhumi, into an old House of Sharvashidze, ruling family of Abkhazia, he was the son of Mikhail, Prince of Abkhazia by his second wife, Princess Alexandra Dadiani.

He was educated at the Page Corps, Saint Petersburg and later became Aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia in 1866.

Proclaimed as Prince of Abkhazia at Sukhumi, by the people after an uprising against the Russians, 29 July 1866. Arrested and deported to Orenburg.

He was granted the right to return to Abkhazia in 1905, but he lived the rest of his life in Kutaisi.

Personal life

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Coat of arms of the Andreevskiy family

Giorgi was married to Elena Erastovna Andreevskaya (1846-1918), member of an untitled Russian nobility.

She was an eldest child and elder daughter of Erast Stepanovich Andreyevskiy (1809-1872), doctor, writer, official state adviser and a spokesman for the Odessa City Duma, and his wife, Princess Varvara Georgiyevna Tumanova (d. 1876), member of an ancient Russianized Georgian princely family. [1] Her father, Erast Stepanovich Andreyevskiy, was also a founder of the Kuialnyk Estuary resort. [2]

The marriage produced no children.

Death

Giorgi died in 1918. His body was buried in Lykhny Cemetery, Sukhumi, Sukhumi District, Abkhazia, Georgia. [3]

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Giorgi Mikhailovitch Sharvashidze
Titles in pretence
Preceded by TITULAR 
Prince of Abkhazia
1866–1918
Reason for succession failure:
Principality incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1866
Succeeded by