George Bagration of Mukhrani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Georgian prince
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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About George Bagration of Mukhrani
- George Bagration of Mukhrani or Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli (Georgian: ?????? ?????????-?????????) (16 July 1884 – 29 September 1957) was a Georgian nobleman, and a titular head of the House of Mukhrani, a collateral branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi. George was born in St.
- Petersburg, Russian Empire, the son of Prince Alexander Bagration of Mukhrani and Princess Maria née Golovatcheva.
- He was educated at the Page Corps.
- He married, in 1908, Helena Sigismundovna, née Zlotnicka-Nowina (1886–1979), whose Georgian mother Princess Mariam Eristavi of Ksani, was a remote descendant of the 18th-century Georgian king Erekle II.George Bagration served as a marshal of the Council of Nobility of Dusheti in Georgia from 1916 to 1917.
- After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he hailed independent Georgia and fought against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.
- George chose to stay in Georgia rather than follow his wife and children in exile following the Sovietization of the country in 1921.
- He was, nevertheless, arrested by the Soviet authorities in 1930, but was soon released through the efforts of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky.
- George Bagration left the Soviet Union and joined his family in their European exile.
- He finally settled in Spain in 1944.
- His son, Irakli, was energetically involved in Georgian political émigré activities.
- One of his daughters, Leonida, married Vladimir Cyrillovich Romanov, Pretender to the Russian throne; the other, Maria, homesick, returned to Soviet Georgia, but was arrested in 1948 and had to spend eight years in exile in Magadan.
- She died in Tbilisi in 1992. George Bagration of Mukhrani died in Madrid, Spain, in 1957.
- His remains were brought back to Georgia by his grandson Jorge de Bagration in 1995 and interred at the Cathedral of Living Pillar at Mtskheta.
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