Alexander | |
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Prince of Mukhrani | |
Head of the Princely House of Mukhrani | |
Predecessor | Prince Constantine |
Successor | Prince George |
Born | 20 July [O.S. 02 July] 1853 Mchadijvari, Tiflis, Georgia, Russia |
Died | 30 October 1918 Pyatigorsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | (aged 65)
Spouse | Maria Golovatcheva |
Issue | George, Prince of Mukhrani Princess Nina Prince Kyrion Princess Maria |
House | Bagrationi-Mukhrani |
Father | Prince Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani |
Mother | Princess Ketevan Argutinsky-Dolgorukov |
Religion | Georgian Orthodox |
Military career | |
Allegiance | Empire of Russia |
Service | Imperial Russian Army |
Years of service | 1874-1918 |
Unit | Life Guard Horse Regiment |
Commands | Nizhny Novgorod dragoon regiment. |
Battles | Russo-Turkish War |
Prince Alexander Bagration, The Prince of Mukhrani (Georgian: ალექსანდრე ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანელი, romanized: aleksandre bagrat'ion-mukhraneli, Alek’sandre Bagration-Mukhraneli; Russian: Александр Ираклиевич Багратион-Мухранский, Aleksandré Iraklyevich Bagration-Mukhransky) (1 August [O.S. 20 July] 1853 – 12 November [O.S. 30 October] 1918) was a Georgian nobleman, and head of the princely House of Mukhrani, a collateral branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi and a descendant of Erekle II, the penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti. A general in the Imperial Russian service and member of the tsar Nicholas II’s immediate circle, he was killed by the Bolsheviks in the post-revolution turmoil in Russia.