Bagrat (Georgian: ბაგრატი) (8 May 1776 – 8 May 1841) was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty and an author. A son of King George XII of Georgia, Bagrat occupied important administrative posts in the last years of the Georgian monarchy, after whose abolition by the Russian Empire in 1801 he entered the imperial civil service. He was known in Russia as the tsarevich Bagrat Georgievich Gruzinsky (Russian: Багра́т Гео́ргиевич Грузи́нский). He is the author of works in the history of Georgia, veterinary medicine and economics. Bagrat is the forefather of the surviving descendants of the last kings of Georgia.
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Life in Georgia
Bagrat was born in Tbilisi into the family of Crown Prince George, the future king George XII, and his first wife Ketevan Andronikashvili. In 1790, Bagrat, then aged 14, received a princely domain in the Ksani valley after his reigning grandfather, Heraclius II, dispossessed the defiant Kvenipneveli dynasty of the duchy of Ksani, dividing it into three parts. Other parts of the duchy were granted to Bagrat's elder brother Ioane and half-uncle Iulon. In addition, during the reign of his father George XII (r. 1798–1800), Bagrat received Kakheti in possession. Around the same time, he became involved in a dynastic feud among the numerous posterity of Heraclius II and George XII. In November 1800, Bagrat was one of the commanders of a combined Russo-Georgian force that defeated the joint invasion by the Avar Khan Umma and Bagrat's own paternal half-uncle Alexander on the Battle of Niakhura in Kakheti.
