In 1803, Queen Mariam was sent into confinement in Belogorod Monastery at Voronezh for having murdered the Russian general Lazarev who was commanded to convoy the king's family to Russia.

Okropir was carried away to St. Petersburg where he was enlisted into the Page Corps and commissioned, in 1812, as a lieutenant of the Chevalier Guard.

Okropir clandestinely visited Tbilisi in 1830, and helped to found a secret society with the aim of restoring an independent kingdom under the Bagrationi dynasty.

[2] The society included many leading Georgian nobles and intellectuals, among them Elizbar Eristavi, Philadelphos Kiknadze, Solomon Dodashvili, Dimitri Kipiani, Giorgi Eristavi, Alexander Chavchavadze, Grigol Orbeliani, and Iase Palavandishvili who subsequently betrayed his numbers.

[1][4] Okropir fathered three sons and two daughters—Princes and Princesses Gruzinsky (i.e., "of Georgia")[1] — who were granted by the Russian emperor the style of His/Her Serene Highness.