Ioane ( ka, იოანე ბაგრატიონი) (16 May 1768 – 15 February 1830) was a Georgian prince ( batonishvili), writer,

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and encyclopaedist.

Life

A son of George XII, the last king of

Kartl-Kakheti The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti ( ka, ქართლ-კახეთის სამეფო, tr) was created in 1762 by the unification of the two eastern Georgian kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti. From the early 16th century, according to t ...

kingdom, eastern Georgia, by his first wife Ketevan Andronikashvili, Ioane commanded an avant-garde of a Georgian force annihilated by the

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army at the

Battle of Krtsanisi The Battle of Krtsanisi ( ka, კრწანისის ბრძოლა, tr, ) was fought between the army of Qajar Iran (Persia) and the Georgian armies of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and Kingdom of Imereti at the place of Krtsanisi n ...

in 1795. Following the battle, the kingdom entered a period of economic crisis and political anarchy. To eradicate the results of a Persian attack and to overcome the retardation of the feudal society, Prince Ioane proposed on 10 May 1799, a project of reforms of administration, army and education. This project was, however, never materialized due to the weakness of George XII and a civil strife in the country. In 1800, he commanded a Georgian cavalry in the joined Russian-Georgian forces that defeated his uncle, Alexandre Bagrationi, and the

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i allies at the Battle of Niakhura. Upon the death of George XII, Kartl-Kakheti was incorporated into the expanding

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, and Ioane was deported to Russia. He settled in

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where he wrote most of his works with a didactic encyclopedic novel ''Kalmasoba'' (1817–1828) being the most important of them. He is also an author of a naturalist encyclopedia (1814), a children encyclopedia (1829), a Russian- Georgian dictionary, a Georgian lexicon, and of several poems. His manuscripts were discovered in 1861 by a Georgian scholar, Dimitri Bakradze, who published them in an abridged version in 1862. He married in 1787, Princess Ketevan Tsereteli (1775–1832), daughter of Prince Zurab Tsereteli (1747–1823), Mayor of the Palace (''sakhlt-ukhutsesi'') of Imereti, and had the only son, Grigol.

Ancestry

References

* David M. Lang, Prince Ioann of Georgia and His "Kalmasoba", ''American Slavic and East European Review'', Vol. 11, No. 4 (Dec., 1952), pp. 274–287 *''Soviet Georgian Encyclopedia'', vol. 5, pp. 188–189. Tbilisi, 1980 (in Georgian)

External links

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