[1] In 1805, Iulon and his family, with the exception of Dimitri's rebellious elder brother Leon, were deported by the Russian authorities to Tula.
[2] In the 1820s, Dimitri and his cousin Prince Okropir, son of George XII of Georgia, became principal leaders of Georgian royalists, respectively, in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
They held gatherings of Georgian students and officers in the Russian cities and tried to convince them that Georgia should be independent under the Bagrationi dynasty.
[3][4] The most active center of the conspirators, based in the Georgian capital of Tiflis—in which Dimitri's elder sister Tamar, Maid of Honor to the empress, played a role—was betrayed by one of its numbers, Prince Iase Palavandishvili, in 1832.
[2] Afterwards, he grudgingly entered the Russian civil service, attaining to a minor rank of Collegiate Registrar (Коллежский регистратор).