Not All the Bagration-Mukhranskys Were Overtaken by the Avenging Hand of the Bolsheviks

Not all the Bagration-Mukhranskys were overtaken by the avenging hand of the Bolsheviks. Why Maria Georgievna Bagration-Mukhranskaya did not go into emigration after her father and sister one can only guess. Georgy Bagration-Mukhransky, contrary to the logic of the repressive machine, was let out of the country at Gorky's petition. Though if you were to say that the daughter may have stayed for family reasons, then her marriage to a scion of the wealthy merchant family of the Karganovs would seem only to have strengthened the motives for leaving. Be that as it may, Maria Georgievna lived her entire life in Tbilisi, in that very Mukhransky house (then still on the street named for the revolutionary and friend of Stalin, Lado Ketskhoveli), surrounded by a few relatives, lived to see our own days and is buried in the royal burial place at Svetitskhoveli.

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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Not All the Bagration-Mukhranskys Were Overtaken by the Avenging Hand of the Bolsheviks

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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