Prince A prince is a Monarch, male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary title, hereditary, in s ...

Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky ( ka, პეტრე ნიკოლოზის ძე გრუზინსკი; russian: Пётр Николаевич Грузинский; literally "Peter of Georgia"; 1837–1892) was a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group **Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three script ...

royal prince (''

batonishvili ''Batonishvili'' ( ka, ბატონიშვილი) (literally "a child of batoni (lord or sovereign)" in Georgian) is a title for royal princes and princesses who descend from the kings of Georgia from the Bagrationi dynasty and is suffixe ...

'') from the

House of Mukhrani The House of Mukhrani is a Georgian princely family that is a branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi, from which it sprang early in the 16th century, receiving in appanage the domain of Mukhrani, in the Kingdom of Kartli. The family ...

of the royal

Bagrationi dynasty 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 Christianity, Christian ruling dynasties in the world. In modern usage, the name of the dyn ...

. Pyotr painted landscapes and

genre painting Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attache ...

s, and was also known for his paintings of battle scenes from the

Caucasus War The Caucasian War (russian: Кавказская война; ''Kavkazskaya vojna'') or Caucasus War was a 19th century military conflict between the Russian Empire and various peoples of the North Caucasus who resisted subjugation during the R ...

.Грузинский, Пётр Николаевич
''Russian Biographic Dictionary'' He was the son of Prince

Nikoloz Gruzinsky Prince Nikoloz Iakobis Dze Bagration-Gruzinsky ( ka, ნიკოლოზ იაკობის ძე ბაგრატიონი გრუზინსკი) (1783–1861) was a Georgian royal prince ('' batonishvili'') of Bagrationi dynasty ...

and a scion 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 ...

Gruzinsky Gruzinsky (russian: Грузинский; ka, გრუზინსკი) was a title and later the surname of two different princely lines of the Bagrationi dynasty of Georgia, both of which received it as subjects of the Russian Empire. The n ...

branch of the

that had moved to

Imperial Russia The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. T ...

in the 18th century. Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky was the last direct male descendant of King

Vakhtang VI of Kartli Vakhtang VI ( ka, ვახტანგ VI), also known as Vakhtang the Scholar, Vakhtang the Lawgiver and Ḥosaynqolī Khan ( fa, حسین‌قلی خان, translit=Hoseyn-Qoli Xān) (September 15, 1675 – March 26, 1737), was a Georgian ...

and the last in the Gruzinsky line.

Paintings

Image:Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky - The mountaineers leave the aul.jpg, ''The mountaineers leave the aul'', by P. N. Gruzinsky, 1872 File:Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky - Home.jpg, ''Home'' by Gruzinsky File:Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky - Mail carrier.jpg, ''Мail carrier'' by Gruzinsky File:Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky - Market in Fontainebleau.jpg, ''Market in Fontainebleau'' by Gruzinsky File:Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky - Maslenitsa.jpg, ''Maslenitsa'' by Gruzinsky File:Грузинский П.Н. Черкесы в горах, гравюра 1895 г..jpg, ''Circassians in the mountains'' by Gruzinsky

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gruzinsky, Pyotr 1837 births 1892 deaths House of Mukhrani 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters Russian people of Georgian descent Imperial Academy of Arts alumni Awarded with a large gold medal of the Academy of Arts Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts