Prince Levan | |
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Born | 2 February 1756 Tbilisi, Kingdom of Kartli |
Died | 5 February 1781 Vejini, Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti |
Dynasty | Bagrationi dynasty |
Father | Heraclius II of Georgia |
Mother | Darejan Dadiani |
Religion | Georgian Orthodox Church |
Khelrtva |
Levan or Leon (Georgian: ლევანი, ლეონი; 2 February 1756 – 5 February 1781) was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty, born to King Heraclius II and Queen Darejan Dadiani. His career flourished in the 1770s, when he was an ambassador to the Russian Empire and then an army commander. Levan was a talented general and a major supporter of his father's military reforms which eroded irreversibly after Levan's mysterious death in 1781.