Grigol Orbeliani


Grigol Orbeliani
Born2 October 1804
Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died21 March 1883 (1883-03-22) (aged 78)
Tbilisi, Russian Empire
Buried
AllegianceRussian Empire
RankAdjutant general in the rank of General of the infantry
CommandsRussian forces around the Caspian theatre
Chairman of the Caucasus Viceroyalty
Governor-general of Tiflis
Battles / warsCaucasian War
Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)
Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)
Other workMember of the State Council
Patriotic poetry
Romanticism
Signature

Prince Grigol Orbeliani or Jambakur-Orbeliani (Georgian: გრიგოლ ორბელიანი; ჯამბაკურ-ორბელიანი) (2 October 1804 – 21 March 1883) was a Georgian Romanticist poet and general in Imperial Russian service. One of the most colorful figures in the 19th-century Georgian culture, Orbeliani is noted for his patriotic poetry, lamenting Georgia's lost independence and the deposition of the Royal House of Bagration. At the same time, he spent decades in the Imperial Russian Army, rising to the highest positions in the imperial administration in the Caucasus.