[1] During the years of his regency, Kaikhosro brought a degree of stability to Guria and effected rapprochement with the expanding Russian Empire, much to the ire of the Ottoman government, which claimed suzerainty over all of western Georgia.
[3] In March 1810, Mamia and the neighboring ruler Levan V Dadiani of Mingrelia joined the Russian army in its conquest of the western Georgian Kingdom of Imereti.
On this occasion, Mamia was also awarded the Order of St. Anna, 1st Class, and the rank of major-general, while his mother Marina was granted an annual pension of 200 chervonets.
[5] Mamia took a keen interest in transforming and developing administration and economy and improving education in his small state, whose population was around 6,000 families.
[6] Around 1817, he gave some lands and families of serfs to James Patrick Montague Marr, a Scotsman, on condition of his introducing the cultivation of indigo.
[8] In September 1820, Gurieli met the Russian commander in Guria, General Velyaminov, at a military camp at Chakhatauri and was assured of the imperial government’s benevolence towards him.