Dmitry Bagration, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1863
Date of Death: 21-Oct-1919
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Dmitry Bagration
- Dmitry Pyotrovich Bagration (Russian: ??????? ???????? ?????????; 13 June 1863 – 21 October 1919) was a Russian general and military writer.
- A scion of the Georgian royal family, he served under the Imperial, Provisional, and Soviet governments. Prince Dmitry Bagration was born in the family of Prince Pyotr Bagration and Yelizaveta Rodzianko.
- He was a great-grandson of General Prince Kiril Bagration, himself a grandson of the Georgian monarch Jesse of Kartli of the Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi.
- Dmitry Bagration was educated as a cavalry officer and also wrote for the military press.
- During World War I, he was appointed commander of the 1st Brigade of the Savage Division in 1914.
- He was twice an acting commander of the division and became a lieutenant-general in 1916.
- After the fall of the Russian monarchy in the February Revolution, Bagration played a role in the Kornilov affair in August 1917, in which he stepped back from supporting General Aleksandr Krymov's planned march against the Russian Provisional Government in Petrograd.
- Soon, Bagration was dismissed from field command to the army reserve.
- Under the Soviet regime, he joined the Red Army in December 1918.
- In 1919, he directed the High Cavalry School and took part in organizing cavalry units of the Red Army.
- He died the same year and was buried at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.Dmitry Bagration was married to Vera Zakharina (1883–1947), with one daughter, Nina.
- His brother, Alexander (1862–1920), who had retired from army service as major-general in 1916, was executed by the Soviet government while being on a vocation.
- With the death of the Bagration brothers, the senior, royal line of the Bagrationi of Mukhrani became extinct in male line.
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