Dmitry Pyotrovich Bagration (russian: Дмитрий Петрович Багратион; 13 June 1863 – 21 October 1919) was a Russian general and military writer. A scion of the

Georgian royal family The Bagrationi dynasty (; ) is a royal dynasty which reigned in Georgia from the Middle Ages until the early 19th century, being among the oldest extant Christian ruling dynasties in the world. In modern usage, the name of the dynasty is sometim ...

, he served under the

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, Provisional, and

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governments.

Biography

Prince Dmitry Bagration was born in the family of Prince Pyotr Bagration and Yelizaveta Rodzianko. He was a great-grandson of General Prince

Kiril Bagration Kiril Bagration ( ka, კირილე ბაგრატიონი, ''Kirile Bagrationi''; russian: Кирилл Александрович Багратион, ''Kirill Aleksandrovich Bagration'') (1749 – 19 April 1828) was an Imperial Russi ...

, himself a grandson of the Georgian monarch

Jesse of Kartli Jesse (, Iese), also known by his Muslim names Ali-Quli Khan and Mustafa Pasha, (1680 or 1681–1727), of the Mukhranian Bagrationi dynasty, was a king of Kartli (Georgia), acting actually as a Safavid Persian and later Ottoman viceroy (wali) ...

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 Bagrationi. Dmitry Bagration was educated as a cavalry officer and also wrote for the military press. During

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, he was appointed commander of the 1st Brigade of the

Savage Division The Caucasian Native Cavalry Division (russian: Кавказская туземная конная дивизия), or "Savage Division" (russian: Дикая дивизия) was a cavalry division of the Imperial Russian Army. Formed on 23 August ...

in 1914. He was twice an acting commander of the division and became a lieutenant-general in 1916. After the fall of the Russian monarchy in the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

, Bagration played a role in the Kornilov affair in August 1917, in which he stepped back from supporting General

Aleksandr Krymov Aleksandr Mikhailovich Krymov (russian: Крымов Александр Михайлович; 23 October 1871 – 31 August 1917) was a Russian Imperial Lieutenant General, a military commander of Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the Russian ...

's planned march against the Russian Provisional Government in

Petrograd 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 ...

. Soon, Bagration was dismissed from field command to the army reserve. Under the Soviet administration, he joined the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

in December 1918. In 1919, he directed the High Cavalry School and took part in organizing cavalry units of the Red Army. He died the same year and was buried at the

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 ...

.Багратион Дмитрий Петрович 1863-1919
некрополь Александро-Невской Лавры Dmitry Bagration was married to Vera Zakharina (1883–1947), with one daughter, Nina. His brother, Alexander (1862–1920), who had retired from army service as major-general in 1916, was executed by the Soviet government while being on a vocation. With the death of the Bagration brothers, the senior, royal line of the Bagrationi of Mukhrani became extinct in male line.

References

1863 births 1919 deaths Imperial Russian Army generals Georgian generals in the Imperial Russian Army Georgian lieutenant generals (Imperial Russia) House of Mukhrani Soviet generals Russian military personnel of World War I Russian people of Georgian descent Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery {{Russia-mil-bio-stub