The Arghutyan-Yerkaynabazuks, Mkhargrdzeli-Arghutashvilis ( hy, Արղության-Երկայնաբազուկ, ka, მხარგრძელი-არღუთაშვილი), later known as Argutinsky-Dolgorukov (russian: Аргутинский-Долгоруков) were a

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and

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n noble family of

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descent whose double surname indicates their descent from Arghut and the family's purported origin from the medieval house of Mkhargrdzeli (Zakaryan-Zachariads). "Dolgorukov" is a direct Russian translation of "Mkhargrdzeli" or "Yerkaynabazuk", literally respectively meaning in Georgian and Armenian "a long-arm". The founder of the family, Arghut, established himself in

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, northern

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, then under Georgian control, at the end of the 15th century. His descendants were received among the lower-class nobility ( aznauri) of Georgia, and enfeoffed of Sanahin, where the family's dynastic abbey was located. Under King Heraclius II of Georgia, the Arghutashvili family was officially recognized as descended from the Mkhargrdzeli and elevated to a princely rank (Georgian:

tavadi ''Tavadi'' ( ka, თავადი, "prince", lit. "head/chief" an from ka, თავი ''tavi'', "head", with the prefix of agent ''-di'') was a feudal title in Georgia (country), Georgia first applied in the Late Middle Ages usually trans ...

, Russian:

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), a title which was confirmed by the

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government on March 6, 1819; December 15, 1838; and November 14, 1857. Bagrationi, Ioane (1768–1830)
Arghutashvili
''The Brief Description of the Georgian Noble Houses''. Retrieved on January 23, 2008. In contrast to the commonly accepted view, the Russian historian

Pyotr Dolgorukov Pyotr Dolgorukov may refer to: *Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov (1866–1951) *Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov Prince Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov (russian: link=no, Князь Пётр Владимирович Долгоруков) (1816–1868) w ...

advanced a hypothesis of the family's

Rurikid The Rurik dynasty ( be, Ру́рыкавічы, Rúrykavichy; russian: Рю́риковичи, Ryúrikovichi, ; uk, Рю́риковичі, Riúrykovychi, ; literally "sons/scions of Rurik"), also known as the Rurikid dynasty or Rurikids, was ...

origin and attempted to trace the common ancestry of Argutinsky-Dolgorukov and the Rurikid house of

Dolgorukov The House of Dolgorukov () is a princely Russian family of Rurikid stock. They are a cadet branch of the Obolenskiy family (until 1494 the rulers of Obolensk, one of the Upper Oka Principalities) and as such claiming patrilineal descent from ...

to the 12th-century prince Yuri Dolgoruki.Долгоруковы и Долгорукие
Russian Biographic Lexicon. Retrieved on January 31, 2008.

References

{{Reflist Dolgorukov family Russian noble families Zakarids Armenian noble families Noble families of Georgia (country)