Ioane ( ka, იოანე ბაგრატიონი) (16 May 1768 in
Tbilisi
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, Georgia – 15 February 1830 in
Saint Petersburg
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,
Russia
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) was a
Georgian
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Common meanings
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** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
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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, accord ...
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
Persian
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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, Ge ...
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
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i allies at the battle of Niakhura.
Upon the death of George XII, Kartl-Kakheti was incorporated into the expanding
Russian Empire
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, and Ioane was deported to Russia. He settled in
Saint Petersburg
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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
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** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
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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
*
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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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