Princess Anastasia of Georgia ( ka, ანასტასია; 3 November 1763 – 17 May 1838) 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 ...

princess royal (''

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 ...

''), a daughter of King

Heraclius II of Georgia Heraclius II ( ka, ერეკლე II), also known as Erekle II and The Little Kakhetian ( ka, პატარა კახი ) (7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 C. ToumanoffHitchins, KeithHeraclius II. ''Encyclopædia Iranica Online edit ...

of his third marriage to

Darejan Dadiani Darejan Dadiani ( ka, დარეჯანი), also known as Daria (Georgian: ; russian: Дарья Георгиевна, Darya Georgyevna) (20 July 1738 – 8 November 1807), was Queen Consort of Kakheti, and later Kartli-Kakheti in Eastern ...

. She was married into the princely family of Eristavi, former Ducal House of Ksani.

Biography

Princess Anastasia was born at the village of

Martkopi Martkopi ( ka, მარტყოფი) is a village in Gardabani Municipality of Georgia. It is located on the left side of Ialno range, in the gorges of the rivers Alikhevi and Tevali, and is at an altitude of 770 meters. It is 55 kilometre ...

Kakheti Kakheti ( ka, კახეთი ''K’akheti''; ) is a region (mkhare) formed in the 1990s in eastern Georgia from the historical province of Kakheti and the small, mountainous province of Tusheti. Telavi is its capital. The region comprises eigh ...

in 1763 as the twelfth child into the family of Heraclius and Darejan. On 12 November 1797, at the age of 34, she married Prince Revaz (Roman) Eristavi (c. 1757–1813), a son of Giorgi, Duke of Ksani, who had been dispossessed by Heraclius II of his hereditary duchy in the Ksani valley. Revaz's sister Ana was married to Anastasia's younger brother Parnaoz. The union was effected to the chagrin of King Heraclius. As she did not receive a

dowry A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower. While bride price or bride service is a payment b ...

from her father, at the time of the

Russian annexation of Georgia The country of Georgia became part of the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Throughout the early modern period, the Muslim Ottoman and Persian empires had fought over various fragmented Georgian kingdoms and principalities; by the 18th cen ...

in 1801, Anastasia's possessions were limited to a garden near

Tiflis Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million pe ...

granted by her half-brother, the late king

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 ...

. In 1802, she was suspected by the Russians of being involved in facilitating the communication between her mother Queen Dowager Darejan in Tiflis and her fugitive anti-Russian brothers, Iulon and Parnaoz, in

Imereti Imereti ( Georgian: იმერეთი) is a region of Georgia situated in the central-western part of the republic along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni River. Imereti is the most populous region in Georgia. It consists of 11 munic ...

. After the establishment of the Russian rule, Anastasia's husband entered the imperial civil service as a Collegiate Counsellor. Already a widow, Anastasia moved to

St. 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 ...

in 1825, bringing her younger son, Giorgi, for further education in the imperial capital. She died there of

pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severity ...

in 1838, at the age of 75. She was buried at the Church of the Holy Spirit,

Alexander Nevsky Lavra Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end of the Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, in the belief that this was the site of the Neva Battle in 1240 when Ale ...

Children

Princess Anastasia had five children with Revaz Eristavi. # Prince Iese Eristavi (died 1811) # Prince Shalva Eristavi (1798 – 12 August 1849), a Titular Counsellor in the Russian service. He was murdered by a peasant, Biba Dodashvili. He was married to Princess Ekaterine Orbeliani, with issue. # Prince Bidzina Eristavi (1800–1876),

podporuchik ''Podporuchik'' ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, потпоручник, potporučnik, cs, podporučík, pl, podporucznik, russian: подпору́чик, bg, подпоручик, sk, podporučík) is the most Junior officer in some Slavic armed forces, an ...

of the Russian army. He took part in the 1832 conspiracy of the Georgian nobles against the Russian rule and spent eight months in prison. He was married to Princess Tamar Melikishvili, with issue. # Prince Giorgi Eristavi (12 February 1802 – 5 November 1891), Lieutenant-general of the Russian army. He was married to Princess Ana Argutinsky-Dolgorukova, with issue. # Princess Tamar (Mariam) Eristavi (1805–1848). She was married to Prince Shermazan (Simon) Abkhazi.

Ancestry

References

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