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Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky
Pretender
Born (1950-08-25) August 25, 1950 (age 73)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Title(s)Prince Bagration-Gruzinsky
Throne(s) claimedGeorgia
Pretend from1984 - present
Monarchy abolished1800
Last monarchGeorge XII of Georgia
Connection withgreat-great-great grandson
Royal HouseBagrationi
FatherPrince Petre Bagration-Gruzinski
MotherLiya Mgeladze
SpouseLeila Kipiani
ChildrenPrincess Anna
Princess Maya
PredecessorPetre Bagration-Gruzinski

Prince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky of Georgia (born August 25, 1950, in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic) is the head of the deposed House of Gruzinsky and represents its claim to the former crown of Georgia.[1]

Biography

Prince Nugzar is the son of Prince Petre Bagration-Gruzinsky of Georgia (1920–1984), a prominent poet and claimant to the headship of the Georgian dynasty from 1939 until his death, and his second wife Liya Mgeladze (b. 8 August 1926). Prince Nugzar is the director of the Tbilisi theatre of cinema artists.

On 18 December 2007, Nugzar met with Kristiina Ojuland, the Vice-President of the Riigikogu (Parliament of Estonia) at the Mariott-Tbilisi Hotel in which Ojuland "paid homage to the Bagrationi dynasty, which has made an extraordinary contribution in support of Georgia".[2] [3]

Prince Nugzar is the senior descendant by primogeniture in the male line of George XII, the last King of Georgia to reign. Historian Raul Chagunava, who has researched the Bagrationi family, believes Bagration-Gruzinsky is the rightful heir to the throne, and Nino Bagrationi, a 90-year-old direct descendant of King Solomon II of Imereti, also recognizes the claim of Bagration-Gruzinsky.[4]

Family

Nugzar was married to Leila Kipiani (b. Tbilisi July 16, 1947) on February 10, 1971 and they have two daughters:

  • Princess Anna Bagration-Gruzinsky, b. Tbilisi November 1, 1976. Married firstly to Grigoriy Malania and had two daughters with him, Irina and Miriam Malania, and secondly, to Prince David Bagration of Mukhrani (see below).
  • Princess Maya Bagration-Gruzinsky, b. Tbilisi January 2, 1978. She married Nikolai Chichinadze and has two children with him, Themour and Anna Chichinadze.

Dynastic alliance

Nugzar's daughter, Princess Anna, a divorced teacher and journalist with two daughters, married Prince David Bagration of Mukhrani, on 8 February 2009 at the Tbilisi Sameba Cathedral.[5] The marriage united the Gruzinsky and Mukhrani branches of the Georgian royal family, and drew a crowd of 3,000 spectators, officials, and foreign diplomats, as well as extensive coverage by the Georgian media.[6]

The dynastic significance of the wedding lay in the fact that, amidst the turmoil in political partisanship that has roiled Georgia since its independence in 1991, Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia publicly called for restoration of the monarchy as a path toward national unity in October 2007.[4] Although this led some politicians and parties to entertain the notion of a Georgian constitutional monarchy, competition arose among the old dynasty's princes and supporters, as historians and jurists debated which Bagrationi has the strongest hereditary right to a throne that has been vacant for two centuries.[6] Although some Georgian monarchists support the Gruzinsky branch's claim, others support that of the re-patriated Mukhrani branch.[4] Both branches descend in unbroken, legitimate male line from the medieval kings of Georgia down to Constantine II of Georgia who died in 1505.

Whereas the Bagration-Mukhrani were a cadet branch of the former Royal House of Kartli, they became the genealogically seniormost line of the Bagrationi family in the early 20th century: yet the elder branch had lost the rule of Kartli by 1724.

Meanwhile, the Bagration-Gruzinsky line, although junior to the Princes of Mukhrani genealogically, reigned over the kingdom of Kakheti, re-united the two realms in the kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti in 1762, and did not lose sovereignty until Russian annexation in 1800.[7]

The bridegroom is the only member of his branch who retains Georgian citizenship and residence since the death of his father, Prince George Bagration-Mukhrani in 2008.[7] Aside from his unmarried elder brother, Prince David is the heir male of the Bagrationi family, while the bride's father is the most senior descendant of the last Bagrationi to reign over the united kingdom of Georgia. Since Nugzar and Princes Peter and Eugene Bagrationi-Gruzinsky are the last patrilineal males descended from King George XIII, and all three were born before 1950, their branch verges on extinction. But the marriage between Nugzar Gruzinsky's heiress and the Mukhrani heir resolves their rivalry for the claim to the throne, which has divided Georgian monarchists.[7] A son born of this marriage is apt to eventually become both the heir male of the House of Bagrationi and the heir general of George XII of Georgia.

Notes

  1. ^ See also David Bagrationi of Moukrani
  2. ^ http://www.reform.ee/kandidaat/UserFiles/Image/Galeriid/Too/Nugzar_of_Georgia.JPG
  3. ^ Kristiina Ojuland - Kokkuvõtte Gruusia visiidist
  4. ^ a b c Time for a King for Georgia?
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ a b Vignanski, Misha (02/08/2009), written at Tiflis, el confidencial, Spain http://www.elconfidencial.com/cache/2009/02/08/93_primera_siglos_reagrupa_ramas_dinastia_bagration.html#, retrieved 02/09/2009 {{citation}}: |contribution= ignored (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ a b c GeorgiaTimes, 2009-02-09 http://www.georgiatimes.info/?lang=en&area=newsItem&id=7197, retrieved 2009-02-09 {{citation}}: |contribution= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Sources

Styles of
Prince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky
Reference styleHis Royal Highness
Spoken styleYour Royal Highness
Alternative styleSir
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Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky
Born: August 25 1950
Titles in pretence
Preceded by — TITULAR —
King of Georgia
1984- 		Incumbent
Heir:
Princess Anna of Georgia

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