Biography
A descendant of the Georgian Kings, with Georgia already annexed by the Russian Empire at the death of King George XII Bagration of Georgia in 1801, (with the Russian conquest of Ossetia in 1802), successor of King Erekle II Bagration, (Georgian: ერეკლე II) (7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 – 11 January 1798) reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798.
In the contemporary Persian (now Iranian) sources, Erekle II of Georgia is referred to as Erekli Khan, while Russians knew him as Irakli (Irakly). The Latinized name is sometimes Heraclius. They are now the Russian princely family Gruzinsky.
Both, his father, Roman (Revaz) Bagrationi (1778 — Tblisi, 1834), and uncle, Pyotr Bagration (Kizlar, Dagestan, 1765 — Battle of Borodino, 1812), were famous Russian Army generals.
In 1840 Bagrationi graduated from the Military Academy in(St.Petersburg, Russia). The following year he started his lifelong research at the Scientific Laboratory of Physics of the St.Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), under Prussian-Russian Academician Moritz von Jacobi, Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, Boris Semyonovich von Jacobi (Russian: Борис Семёнович (Морис-Герман) Якоби) (21 September 1801 – 10 March 1874).
He was awarded the Prize of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1850, and received the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1865.
In 1862 Bagrationi was made the Governor of Tver province, and from 1870 until his death he was the Governor-General of the Baltic governorates (Courland, Livonia and Estonia). He was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd degree (in 1868), the Order of the White Eagle (in 1869) and the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (in 1872).
Bagrationi died in St.Petersburg on 17 January 1876.
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