Grigol Orbeliani | |
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| Born | 2 October 1804 Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire |
| Died | 21 March 1883 (aged 78) Tbilisi, Russian Empire |
| Buried | Kashveti Church, Tbilisi |
| Allegiance | Russian Empire |
| Rank | Adjutant general in the rank of General of the infantry |
| Commands | Russian forces around the Caspian theatre Chairman of the Caucasus Viceroyalty Governor-general of Tiflis |
| Battles / wars | Caucasian War Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) |
| Other work | Member of the State Council Patriotic poetry Romanticism |
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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.