Prince Teymuraz Bagration of Mukhrani (21 August 1912 – 10 April 1992) was a

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n nobleman and an

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in the

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where he served as President of the

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, a

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-based charitable organization.

Life

He was born at Pavlovsk,

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, into a formerly sovereign family. His father, Prince Konstantin Bagration-Mukhransky (1889–1915), a member of the

Mukhrani Mukhrani ( ka, მუხრანი, originally Mukhnari ��უხნარი i.e., "oak-grove") is a historical lowland district in eastern Georgia, currently within the borders of Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, north of the town of Mtskheta. It lie ...

branch of the Bagration family, formerly a royal dynasty of Georgia, was an

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officer and was killed in

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. Teymuraz's mother,

Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia ( Russian: Княжна Татьяна Константиовна; – 28 August 1979) was the third child and eldest daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia and his wife, Prince ...

(1890–1979) was a member of the imperial

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of Russia. Through her, he was second cousin of

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and

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. Teymuraz Bagration left Russia after the

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, first living in Switzerland and then settling in Yugoslavia. Prince Bagration graduated in 1932 from the Krymskiy Cadet School and then studied at the Yugoslav Military Academy. He served for ten years in the Guards Mounted Artillery Regiment of the Royal Yugoslav Army. During

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, he served in the Royal Yugoslav Army. After the war, he emigrated to the U.S. and was invited to join the Tolstoy Foundation in 1949. He became Executive Director of the Foundation in 1979 and led the organization from 1986 until his death in New York in 1992. On 5 July 2007, Bagration's unique archive was presented by his second wife, Princess Irina, to the

National Parliamentary Library of Georgia The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს პარლამენტის ეროვნული ბიბლიოთეკა, ''sakartvelos p'arlament'is erovnuli bibliotek'a'') is a governmenta ...

.თეიმურაზ ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანსკის არქივი ეროვნულ ბიბლიოთეკას გადაეცა
''National Parliamentary Library of Georgia: News''. 11 July 2007.

Personal life

Bagration was married twice. The first time he was married in

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to Katarina Racic (4 Jul 1919,

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- 20 December 1946), grand-daughter of Serbian Prime minister

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on 27 October 1940. At the time of the wedding he was 28 and she was 21, but the marriage ended with Katarina's death at the age of 27. The second marriage was with Countess Irina Czernysheva-Besobrasova (born 26 September 1926,

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- 9 July 2015,

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), the daughter of Count Sergei Aleksandrovich Czernyshev-Besobrasov and Countess Elizaveta

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a. Irina was an older sister of Countess Xenia Czernyshev-Besobrasov, who married 1953 Archduke Rudolf Syringus, youngest son of

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, the last

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. This marriage was celebrated on 27 November 1949 and took place in

. He was 37 and she was 23. There was no issue of either marriage.

Ancestry

References

External links

Biography of Teymuraz K. Bagration
The

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