Ioane ( ka, იოანე ბაგრატიონი) (16 May 1768 in
Tbilisi, Georgia – 15 February 1830 in
Saint Petersburg,
Russia) was a
Georgian prince (
batonishvili), writer and encyclopaedist.
Life
A son of
George XII, the last king of
Kartl-Kakheti kingdom, eastern Georgia, by his first wife
Ketevan Andronikashvili, Ioane commanded an avant-garde of a Georgian force annihilated by the
Persian army at the
Battle of Krtsanisi in 1795.
Following the battle, the kingdom entered a period of economic crisis and political anarchy. To eradicate the results of a Persian attack and to overcome the retardation of the feudal society, Prince Ioane proposed on 10 May 1799, a project of reforms of administration, army and education. This project was, however, never materialized due to the weakness of George XII and a civil strife in the country. In 1800, he commanded a Georgian cavalry in the joined Russian-Georgian forces that defeated his uncle,
Alexandre Bagrationi
Prince Alexander of Georgia ( ka, ალექსანდრე ბატონიშვილი, ''aleksandre batonishvili'') (1770–1844) was a Georgian royal prince (''batonishvili'') of the Bagrationi family, who headed several insurrectio ...
, and the
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...
i allies at the battle of Niakhura.
Upon the death of George XII, Kartl-Kakheti was incorporated into the expanding
Russian Empire, and Ioane was deported to Russia. He settled in
Saint Petersburg where he wrote most of his works with a didactic encyclopedic novel ''Kalmasoba'' (1817–1828) being the most important of them.
He is also an author of a naturalist encyclopedia (1814), a children encyclopedia (1829), a Russian-
Georgian dictionary, a Georgian lexicon, and of several poems.
His manuscripts were discovered in 1861 by a Georgian scholar,
Dimitri Bakradze
Dimitri Bakradze ( ka, დიმიტრი ბაქრაძე) (26 October 1826 – 10 February 1890) was a Georgian scholar who authored several influential works in the history, archaeology and ethnography of Georgia and the Caucasus.
He w ...
, who published them in an abridged version in 1862.
He married in 1787, Princess Ketevan Tsereteli (1775–1832), daughter of Prince Zurab Tsereteli (1747–1823), Mayor of the Palace (''sakhlt-ukhutsesi'') of Imereti, and had the only son,
Grigol.
Ancestry
References
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David M. Lang
David Marshall Lang (6 May 1924 – 20 March 1991), was a Professor of Caucasian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was one of the most productive British scholars who specialized in Georgian, Armenian and an ...
, Prince Ioann of Georgia and His "Kalmasoba", ''American Slavic and East European Review'', Vol. 11, No. 4 (Dec., 1952), pp. 274–287
*''Soviet Georgian Encyclopedia'', vol. 5, pp. 188–189. Tbilisi, 1980 (in Georgian)
External links
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Male writers from Georgia (country)
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Military personnel from Georgia (country)
Georgian princes
Bagrationi dynasty of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Military personnel from Tbilisi
1768 births
1830 deaths
18th-century people from Georgia (country)
19th-century people from Georgia (country)
Battle of Krtsanisi
Burials at Lazarevskoe Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
Burials at the Dukhovskaya Church
Writers from Tbilisi