The House of Tumanishvili ( ka, თუმანიშვილი) or House of Tumanian (), later Russianized as Toumanov or Toumanoff () is an Armeno- Georgian Princes Batounishvili family.Pioneers of Byzantine studies in America. John W. Barker, 2002, P. 231

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History

The family claimed roots in the ancient Armenian noble dynasty of the Mamikonians (Mamikonids),Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, Volumes 7-8. Society for Armenian Studies. The Society, 1994. Page 5 "''Cyril Leo Heraclius Toumanoff was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the descendant of an old Armeno-Georgian family long settled in Georgia. Though the Toumanoffs (Georgian: Toumaniani for the branch of the House that remained with the Armenian Church; Toumanishvili for the Greek Orthodox line), he was descended from a Mamikonian noble, Prince Tuman, who, ca. 1250, migrated from the Cilician Armenian Kingdom to Georgia and there acquired the lordship of Kheltubani, an estate just north of the town of Gori. By the fourteenth century, the family had acquired the hereditary protonotoryship of the kingdom of Georgia, a position held collectively by all male members of the house until the end of the Georgian monarchy''" One branch of the family, the Toumaniani, belonged to the Armenian Church; the other branch, the Toumanishvili, was

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. The house of T’umanids, moved to Georgia from Armenia Maritima ( Cilicia) after the twelfth century and adopted the last name Toumanishvili. They were acknowledged by the Kings of Georgia as ''

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 ...

'' (princes), and received hereditary rank as the King's "mdivanbeg" ( counselor or

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). The Tumanishvili family was on the list of Georgian high nobility that was attached to the

Treaty of Georgievsk The Treaty of Georgievsk (; ka, გეორგიევსკის ტრაქტატი, tr) was a bilateral treaty concluded between the Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti on July 24, 1783. The treaty establi ...

concluded with the Georgian King

Erekle II Heraclius II, also known as Erekle II ( ka, ერეკლე II) and The Little Kakhetian ( ka, პატარა კახი, link=no ; 7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 Cyril_Toumanoff.html" ;"title="ccording to Cyril Toumanoff">C. Touman ...

on July 24, 1783 and was recognized on the

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's list of princely families in December 1850. The Prince Mikhail Tumanov was the Ambassador (Minister plenipotentiary) of

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during the

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.The Republic of Armenia: The first year, 1918-1919, Richard G. Hovannisian, p. 346

People with these names

Cyril Toumanoff Cyril Leo Toumanoff ( ka, კირილ თუმანოვი; ; 10 October 1913 – 4 February 1997) was a Georgian-American historian, and academic genealogist who mostly specialized in the history and genealogies of medieval Georgia, Armen ...

, Russian-born Georgian historian *

Tamara Toumanova Tamara Toumanova ( ka, თამარა თუმანოვა; 2 March 1919 – 29 May 1996) was a Russian-born Georgian-American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her ...

, Georgian-American ballerina * Joseph Tumanishvili, stage director of the

Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre () is a music theatre in Moscow. The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre was founded in 1941 when two companies directed by the legendary ...

in Moscow after 1943 * Mikheil Tumanishvili (1921–1996), Georgian theatre director *

Hovhannes Tumanyan Hovhannes Tumanyan (, classical spelling: Յովհաննէս Թումանեան, – March 23, 1923) was an Armenian poet, writer, translator, and literary and public activist. He is the national poet of Armenia. Tumanyan wrote poems, q ...

, Armenian poet Image:Colonel Prince Tumanov (A).jpg, Colonel Prince Tumanov, 1857 Image:Military engineer-colonel Prince Tumanov (A).jpg, Military engineer-colonel Prince Tumanov, 1863

References

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