David Bagrationi ( ka, დავით ბაგრატიონი, ), also known as David the Regent ( ka, დავით გამგებელი, ) (1 July 1767 in Tbilisi, Georgia – 13 May 1819 in Saint Petersburg, Russia), was a

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royal prince ( batonishvili), writer and scholar, was a regent of the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti, eastern Georgia, from December 28, 1800 to January 18, 1801. The eldest son of the last Kartli-Kakhetian, King George XII by his first wife

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, he was educated in Russia (1787–1789), and served there as a colonel of the

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from 1797 to 1798. He was proclaimed as Heir Apparent by his father on February 22, 1799 and confirmed by the Russian

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Paul I, an official protector of Georgia, on 18 April 1799. In 1800, he attempted to modernize the law and administration. He became a lieutenant general the same year. On his father's death in December 1800, David became the head of the Royal House of Bagrationi but was not allowed to ascend the throne of Kartli-Kakheti. David ruled briefly between the time of his father's death (December 28, 1800) and the arrival of General Knorring (May 24, 1801).Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), ''The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition'', p. 357.

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, In November 1800 the Russian Tsar had prohibited him from doing that without Russian consent. On January 18, 1801 he was surprised by a decree of Paul I declaring the annexation of the Kingdom to the Russian Empire. He tried to remain in power as de facto head of state. In May 1801 Russian General Carl Heinrich Knorring removed him from power and established a provisional government headed by General Ivan Petrovich Lasarev. Prince David was brought to

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under a military escort on February 18, 1803. From 1812 to 1819, he held a seat in the

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of the Russian Empire. He married in 1800 Princess Elene

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(1770—1836), and died childless in 1819. He was buried at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. Influenced by the ideas of

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, he was the first Georgian translator of Voltaire. He was also an author of a research on Georgian history (

, 1814), ''Review of the Georgian Law'' ( Russian, 1811—1816), ''Abridged Manual of Physics'' (Georgian, 1818), and several poems.

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David Bagrationi David Bagrationi ( ka, დავით ბაგრატიონი, ), also known as David the Regent ( ka, დავით გამგებელი, ) (1 July 1767 in Tbilisi, Georgia – 13 May 1819 in Saint Petersburg, Russia), was ...

1767 births 1819 deaths Writers from Tbilisi Regents of Georgia Imperial Russian Army generals Georgian generals in the Imperial Russian Army Georgian lieutenant generals (Imperial Russia) 18th-century viceregal rulers 19th-century viceregal rulers 18th-century historians from Georgia (country) Heirs apparent who never acceded Burials at the Feodorovskaya Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra