Jorge de Bagration y de Mukhrani or Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli or George Bagration of Mukhrani was a Spanish racing car driver of Georgian descent and a claimant to the headship of the Bagrationi dynasty and to the historical throne of Georgia.
Eristavi was a Georgian feudal office, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine strategos and normally translated into English as "prince" or less commonly as "duke". In the Georgian aristocratic hierarchy, it was the title of the third rank of prince and governor of a large province. Holders of the title were ex-officio commanders of a military 'banner', wore a distinctive dress, ring, belt and spear and rode a particular breed of horse.
Irakli Bagration-Mukhraneli was a Georgian prince of the Mukhrani branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi.
David Orbeliani, monikered David "the General" was a Georgian military figure, politician, translator, and a poet of some talent.
Prince Grigol Orbeliani or Jambakur-Orbeliani was a Georgian Romanticist poet and general in Imperial Russian service. One of the most colorful figures in the 19th-century Georgian culture, Orbeliani is noted for his patriotic poetry, lamenting Georgia's lost independence and the deposition of the Royal House of Bagration. At the same time, he spent decades in the Imperial Russian Army, rising to the highest positions in the imperial administration in the Caucasus.
The House of Amilkhvari was a noble house of Georgia which rose to prominence in the fifteenth century and held a large fiefdom in central Georgia until the Imperial Russian annexation of the country in 1801. They were hereditary marshals (amilakhvar/amilakhor) of Georgia from c. 1433, from which the family takes its name. Subsequently, the family was received among the princes (knyaz) of the Empire under the name of Amilakhvarov and Amilakhvari. Till the 17th century their family residence was in Skhvilo castle, when they moved to Kvemo Chala castle.
The House of Mukhrani is a Georgian princely family that is a branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi, from which it sprang early in the 16th century, receiving in appanage the domain of Mukhrani, in the Kingdom of Kartli. The family — currently the seniormost genealogical line of the entire Bagrationi dynasty — has since been known as Mukhranbatoni.
George Bagration of Mukhrani, Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli or Prince Georgi Alexandrovich Bagration-Mukhranski was a Georgian nobleman, and a titular head of the House of Mukhrani, a collateral branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi.
Prince Alexander Bagration, The Prince of Mukhrani was a Georgian nobleman, and head of the princely House of Mukhrani, a collateral branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi and a descendant of Erekle II, the penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti. A general in the Imperial Russian service and member of the tsar Nicholas II’s immediate circle, he was killed by the Bolsheviks in the post-revolution turmoil in Russia.
The House of Orbeliani was a Georgian noble family (tavadi), which branched off the House of Baratashvili in the 17th century and later produced several lines variously called Orbeliani, Orbelishvili (ორბელიშვილი), Qaplanishvili (ყაფლანიშვილი), and Jambakur(ian)-Orbeliani (ჯამბაკურ[იან]-ორბელიანი). They were prominent in Georgia's politics, culture, and science; remained so under the Russian rule in the 19th century – when most of the Orbeliani lines were received among the princely nobility (knyaz) of the Russian Empire – and into the 20th century.
The House of Guriis Eristavi or Eristavi of Guria, was a Georgian noble family, a branch of the Shervashidze, dynasts in Abkhazia. Initially in the XV century, during the reign of House of Gurieli, the position was held by the noble family of Gugunava and in the XVI century – House of Kobaladze. Throughout the XVII century, the office was supervised by Tavadi Giorgi Sharvashidze, brother-in-law of Mamia III Gurieli. Giorgi and his posterity received the feudal domains with monasteries of Gomaghali and Erketi and Satavado (county) lands of Sajavakho that before was belonged to House of Chiladze. Thus, their surname derives from the title of eristavi ("duke") and in the 18th century, the family bore the name Eristavi-Sharvashidze (ერისთავი-შერვაშიძე). On December 6, 1850, the family was received among the princely nobility of the Russian Empire as knyaz Eristov-Guriisky.
Alexander I, of the Bagrationi dynasty, was king of Western Georgia from 1387 to 1389. Prior to that, he was eristavi ("duke") of Imereti under the authority of the kings of Georgia.
Princess Ketevan Bagration of Mukhrani also known as Khétévane Bagrationi–Orsini, Ketevan Bagrationi–Mukhraneli, or Ketevan Bagrationi–Mukhranbatoni is a French-born Italian–Georgian public figure and diplomat, who was Georgia's ambassador to the Holy See from 2005 to 2014 and again from 2019 to 2023. She has a dual French and Georgian citizenship.
Prince Ivan Makarovich Dzhambakurian-Orbeliani was a Russian imperial general, governor of Kutaisi and Georgian prince.
Giorgi Bagrationi (Georgian: გიორგი ბაგრატიონი;, is a Georgian prince of the Bagrationi dynasty, which reigned until the early 19th century in Georgia and its successive realms.
Constantine IV was the head of the Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi dynasty of Georgia and the last Prince (batoni) of Mukhrani and ex officio commander of the Banner of Shida Kartli and Grand Master of the Household (msakhurt-ukhutsesi) of Georgia in 1801. Afterwards, he was in the service of the Russian Empire, ending his career with the rank of general.
1832 Georgian plot was a political conspiracy involving Georgian royalty and nobility to restore Georgian statehood and its Bagrationi monarchy through an assassination of the Russian imperial administration.
Princess Manana Orbeliani was a Georgian noblewoman and socialite, whose salon in Tiflis was frequented by the leading literary and political figures of Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, of the mid-19th century.
Princess Elizabeth Orbeliani was a Georgian poet, translator, and philanthropist, who worked on improving the rights of women. She was the first ever woman to teach at the Tbilisi State University, of which she is considered a co-founder.
