Sophia, Princess of Guria

Furthermore, Sophia expelled Mingrelian military posts from the shores of Lake Paliastomi and replaced them with stronger Gurian patrols, opening a line of communications with Poti and causing the Russian commander-in-chief Ivan Paskevich to forewarn her of the consequences.

[7] Sensing the imminent threat, on the night of 1 to 2 October 1828, Sophia with her son David and the eldest daughter Ekaterina and an entourage of loyal nobles fled Guria to Kobuleti.

The Russian troops quickly occupied Guria, seizing Sophia's two little daughters at the Gurieli castle of Likhauri, and repulsed an attack from the Ottoman territory on the frontier fort of St.

[9] In the spring of 1829, Sophia, from her residence at the Kintrishi glade, in the immediate neighborhood of Guria, issued proclamations to the Gurians calling on them to resist the Russians and defend their rightful sovereign.

Sophia, David, and their retinue narrowly escaped to Trebizond, where the princess, exhausted and demoralized, died at the small town of Akçaabat (Platana) on 7 September 1829 and was buried at the local Greek monastery of St. Sofia; her grave has been lost.