Mehmet Vasıf Pasha Gürcü

Mehmet Vasıf Pasha Gürcü (died 1865) was an Ottoman field marshal and administrator of ethnic Georgian background.

[1] According to the memoirs of the Russian general Nikolay Muravyov, Vasıf was a Georgian from the Guria province, born in the village Chokhlati and originally surnamed Gudjabidze.

He was sold as a slave at the age of 12 to Reşid Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul.

He then served, from the 1830s through the 1850s, as governor (wali) of Niş, Salonica, Vidin, Arabistan, and Trabzon.

From the 1830s to the 1850s, Mehmet Vasıf Pasha was as a (governor) of Serbia, commander of the army in Arabistan and commander-in-chief in Anatolia.