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# The Bagration-Mukhransky family, its marriages with the Romanovs and its Tbilisi mansion
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/poskolku-v-gruzii-pogovarivaiut-o-vynesenii-na-referendum-voprosa-vosstanovleniia-monarkhii-reshil-prodolzhit-rasskaz-o-dinastii-bagration-mukhranskikh/
- Published: 2017-06-30T08:57:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:09:05.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Aristocracy, Architecture, Monarchies, Observations

With talk in Georgia of putting the restoration of the monarchy to a referendum, I have decided to continue my account of the Bagration-Mukhransky dynasty.

The Georgian noble house of Bagration-Mukhransky is linked with the House of Romanov by several dynastic marriages. The most significant of them, of course, is the marriage of Leonida Bagration-Mukhransky to Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich Romanov, from which was born Maria Vladimirovna Romanova, who styles herself head of the Russian Imperial House (I [wrote](https://t.me/captainpaleo/889?ref=theparnassian.com) about that story earlier.

The Bagration-Mukhranskys are one of the branches of the Bagrationi dynasty, descended from the younger son of King Constantine II, Bagrat (1519-1539), who received the district of Mukhrani as his holding. It is a small lowland territory, where vines are chiefly grown to this day. There is, incidentally, a wine house, Château Mukhrani. In the second half of the 17th century the Princes of Mukhrani came to rule in Georgia, and did so until the middle of the 18th century; this dynasty gave Georgia five rulers. After the abolition of the Mukhrani appanage, the Mukhranbatonis continued to exist as a princely house. Many lines of the family died out, and today a single branch survives.

From 1842 to 1895 the house was headed by Ivan Konstantinovich Bagration-Mukhransky, and the memory of him survives in many buildings of Tbilisi. He commissioned a family mansion in the centre of the city, and this house of the Bagration-Mukhranskys stands to this day. I often walked past it on my way to the National Parliamentary Library without giving much thought to the building's fate. Today it houses the Gudiashvili Gallery: nothing special, heavy iron doors, a marble entrance hall and a rather pleasant two-storey exhibition space. On display are the painter's drawings, caricatures, photographs and pictures. The other half of the house consists of private flats, in one of which the family of the artist Gudiashvili still lives, owning one of the most impressive collections of art and antiques in the country (distinguished guests such as Margaret Thatcher were often brought to see it). I shall tell of this house, where I was a guest of several families at once, some other time. Let me add just one thing: Maria, the second daughter of Georgy Alexandrovich Bagration-Mukhransky, head of the Georgian royal house from 1918 to 1957, lived here until her last day.

I must say at once that the line of Lieutenant General Ivan K. Bagration-Mukhransky came to an end with the death in 1903 of his only (and childless) son Konstantin. The Bagration-Mukhranskys of whom we speak today are the descendants of Ivan's brother, Actual State Councillor Irakly Konstantinovich Bagration-Mukhransky, and Ekaterina Argutinskaya-Dolgorukaya, a member of an Armenian princely family. From this marriage was born Alexander Iraklievich, who was the father of Georgy. Georgy Alexandrovich Bagration-Mukhransky had an elder sister, Nina Alexandrovna. Alexander Iraklievich was brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks in Kislovodsk, while his wife Maria Dmitrievna and his daughter managed to escape to Nice in 1921\. Nina was a maid of honour to Empress Maria Feodorovna; in Europe she remained unmarried and for many years headed charitable organisations.

The mother of Maria Dmitrievna, née Golovacheva, was called Leonida. Thus Georgy Alexandrovich Bagration-Mukhransky named his elder daughter after his mother, and the younger after her maternal grandmother.