Imeretinsky

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Country Georgia
Parent house Bagrationi dynasty
Current head disputed

Imeretinsky (Georgian: იმერეტინსკი; Russian: Имеретинский) is a title and later the surname of the Georgian royal family branch of the royal Bagrationi dynasty of Kingdom of Imereti.[1]

Solomon II of Imereti was the last Georgian king of Kingdom of Imereti until it was annexed by Russian Empire in 1810.

The name "Imeretinsky" (also spelled Imeretinski, or Imeretinskii) derives from Russian, originally and literally meaning "of Imereti".

Survival of royal dynasty after 1810

  • Princess Nino Bagration (1915-2008), former head of House of Imereti. President of the Bagration Society. She supported the claims of Prince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky[2] on the Georgian throne. (It is extinct in male line)
  • Prince David Bagration (1948), another head of House of Imereti. (Illegitimate line which continues in male line.)[3]

References

  1. (Georgian) ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია ტ. 5 გვ. 115
  2. EurasiaNet, Civil Society, Time for a king of Georgia?, Giorgi Lomsadze, 10 December 2007
  3. იმერელი ბაგრატიონების ოჯახი გაიოზ მამალაძე