Ioane ( ka, იოანე ბაგრატიონი) (16 May 1768 in

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, Georgia – 15 February 1830 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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) was a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

prince (

batonishvili ''Batonishvili'' ( ka, ბატონიშვილი) (literally "a child of batoni (lord or sovereign)" in Georgian) is a title for royal princes and princesses who descend from the kings of Georgia from the Bagrationi dynasty and is suffixe ...

), writer and encyclopaedist.

Life

A son of

George XII George XII ( ka, გიორგი XII, ''Giorgi XII''), sometimes known as George XIII (November 10, 1746 – December 28, 1800), of the House of Bagrationi, was the second and last King of the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti in eastern Georgia from ...

, the last king of

Kartl-Kakheti The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti ( ka, ქართლ-კახეთის სამეფო, tr) (1762–1801 ) was created in 1762 by the unification of two eastern Georgian kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti. From the early 16th century, accor ...

kingdom, eastern Georgia, by his first wife

Ketevan Andronikashvili Ketevan Andronikashvili ( ka, ქეთევან ანდრონიკაშვილი; 1754 – 3 June 1782) was a Georgian noblewoman and the first wife of the future king George XII of Georgia. She is known for the victory of Georgian ...

, Ioane commanded an avant-garde of a Georgian force annihilated by the

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army at the

Battle of Krtsanisi The Battle of Krtsanisi ( ka, კრწანისის ბრძოლა, tr) was fought between the Qajar Iran ( Persia) and the Georgian armies of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and Kingdom of Imereti at the place of Krtsanisi near Tbilisi, ...

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, and the Dagestani allies at the battle of Niakhura. Upon the death of George XII, Kartl-Kakheti was incorporated into the expanding

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, and Ioane was deported to Russia. He settled in

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-

dictionary, a Georgian lexicon, and of several poems. His manuscripts were discovered in 1861 by a Georgian scholar, Dimitri Bakradze, 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

* David M. Lang, 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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