Ali Mirza of Kakheti
'Ali-Mirza (Georgian: ალი-მირზა), born Alexander (ალექსანდრე), (died 23 November 1737[1] or 1739[2]) was a prince of the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty of the Kingdom of Kakheti who ruled in eastern Georgian provinces – Kartli and Kakheti – for the shah of Iran in the late 1730s. Like his father, King David II (Imam-Quli Khan), and brothers, Ali-Mirza was a convert to Islam. As a ruler of Kakheti, he is sometimes known in modern historiography by his Christian name Alexander and ascribed the regnal number "Third". Despite his power being derived from the shah, Ali Mirza followed the established Georgian tradition to style himself as "king of kings".[3]
Ali-Mirza was made a viceroy (wali) at Tbilisi, the capital of the kingdom of Kartli, in August 1735, by the Iranian shah Nader after the victory over the Ottomans. The Persian officer Safi Khan was appointed to watch by him and the Muslim Georgian Ali Quli-Bek Amirejibi was placed in charge of collecting taxes. Ali-Mirza failed to gain foothold in the restive province and, in 1736, attempted to establish himself in his native Kakheti from where his paternal uncle, Teimuraz, had been removed by Nader and was then accompanying the shah on the road to Kandahar.[4] Unable to gain popularity with the local population and facing an unrest, Ali-Mirza was finally deposed by the shah, who now favored the more able Teimuraz. After a token resistance, Ali-Mirza retired to Iran where he commanded the shah's Georgian regiments and died in the campaign in Kandahar in 1737[1] or 1739.[2]
Ali-Mirza was married to Mariam, daughter of Shanshe II, Duke of Ksani. According to Cyril Toumanoff's genealogy, Ali-Mirza had two children, who retired and died in the Russian Empire:
- Prince Ioane (Ivan Alexandrovich Bagration; 7 November 1730 – 28 September 1795), who had a son named Peter, whose fate is obscure;
- Princess Ana (Anna Alexandrovna Bagration; 1723 – 19 March 1780), who married in Moscow, c. 1743, Prince Pyotr Igorovich Dadianov (15 June 1716 – 7 December 1784), captain of the Imperial Russian army of the Georgian noble descent.[2]
References
- ^ a b Template:Ru icon Grebelsky, P. Kh., Dumin, S. V., Lapin, V. V. (1993), Дворянские роды Российской империи (Noble families of Russian Empire), vol. 3, p. 68. IPK Vesti
- ^ a b c Template:Fr Toumanoff, Cyrille (1976), Manuel de généalogie et de chronologie pour le Caucase chrétien (Arménie, Géorgie, Albanie), p. 153. Édition Aquila, Rome
- ^ Sologashvili, Nana (2005). "ქართლ-კახეთი XVIII ს-ის 35-40-იან წლებში". Amirani (in Georgian). 13: 61–85.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ Allen, William Edward David (1932), A History of the Georgian People: From the Beginning Down to the Russian Conquest in the Nineteenth Century, p. 191. Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-7100-6959-6