Georgian Royal Family Today
The majority of the Bagrationi family left Georgia after the Red Army took over Tbilisi in 1921. A descendant of the family, Princess Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Moukhransky, married Vladimir Cyrillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, and became the mother of one of the claimants to the Romanov legacy, Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia.
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