Nizharadze

[1] A family legend of the Nizharadze, written down in the genealogical work by Prince Ioann of Georgia early in the 19th century, traces the family's origin to the Persian Nizhad who settled down in Imereti, his descendants being named Nizharadze, “the son of Nizhad”, after him.

[2] Popular memory has preserved another legend, according to which, the Nizharadze stem of the three brothers from the mountainous western Georgian province of Svaneti, two of whom had moved to Imereti and Adjara.

[1] By the mid-18th century, their fiefdom encompassed several villages west of the Imeretian capital of Kutaisi.

Prince Rostom Nizharadze was a son-in-law of King Solomon II of Imereti and followed him into struggle for independence against the Russians in 1810 and ultimately in his Turkish exile.

[1] Prince David Nizharadze (1853–1922) attained to a rank of general of the Russian army during World War I.