Prince Grigol of Georgia

In 1801 the Russian Empire annexed the kingdom of Georgia and began deporting members of the late king George XII's family to Russia proper.

His appeal to the memories of the suppressed royal dynasty garnered further support among the population of eastern Georgia and Grigol was proclaimed king on 20 February 1812.

[1] Pardoned a year later, Grigol entered the Russian military service and took part in the concluding phases of the Napoleonic Wars, particularly, the 1813 Polish campaign, of which he left an account.

[1] Prince Grigol married on 28 January 1824, during his visit to Tiflis, Varvara Feodorovna Bukrinskaya (10 December 1810 – 29 November 1876), a Georgia-born daughter of a Russian bureaucrat.

They had two sons and two daughters, recognized in 1833 by the Russian government in the title of Princes and Princesses Gruzinsky, with the addition of the style "Serene Highness" since 1865.