Prince Ioane of Georgia

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Prince Ioane
Head of the Royal House of Georgia
Reign	13 May 1819 – 15 February 1830
Predecessor	David Bagrationi
Successor	Prince Grigol of Georgia
Born	(1768-05-16)16 May 1768 Tbilisi, Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Died	15 February 1830(1830-02-15) (aged 61) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Burial	Alexander Nevsky Monastery
Spouse	Ketevan Tsereteli
Issue	Prince Grigol of Georgia
House	Bagrationi dynasty
Father	George XII of Georgia
Mother	Ketevan Andronikashvili
Religion	Georgian Orthodox Church
Occupation	writer and encyclopedist
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Ioane (Georgian: იოანე ბაგრატიონი) (16 May 1768 in Tbilisi, Georgia – 15 February 1830 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Georgian prince (batonishvili), writer and encyclopaedist.^{[citation needed]}

A son of George XII, the last king of Kartl-Kakheti kingdom, eastern Georgia, by his first wife Ketevan Andronikashvili, Ioane commanded an avant-garde of a Georgian force annihilated by the Persian army at the Battle of Krtsanisi in 1795.^{[citation needed]}

Following the battle, the kingdom entered a period of economic crisis and political anarchy. To eradicate the results of a Persian attack and to overcome the retardation of the feudal society, Prince Ioane proposed on 10 May 1799, a project of reforms of administration, army and education. This project was, however, never materialized due to the weakness of George XII and a civil strife in the country. In 1800, he commanded a Georgian cavalry in the joined Russian-Georgian forces that defeated his uncle, Alexandre Bagrationi, and the Dagestani allies at the battle of Niakhura.^{[citation needed]}

Upon the death of George XII, Kartl-Kakheti was incorporated into the expanding Russian Empire, and Ioane was deported to Russia. He settled in Saint Petersburg where he wrote most of his works with a didactic encyclopedic novel Kalmasoba (1817–1828) being the most important of them.^{[citation needed]}

He is also an author of a naturalist encyclopedia (1814), a children encyclopedia (1829), a Russian-Georgian dictionary, a Georgian lexicon, and of several poems.^{[citation needed]}

His manuscripts were discovered in 1861 by a Georgian scholar, Dimitri Bakradze, who published them in an abridged version in 1862.^{[citation needed]}

He married in 1787, Princess Ketevan Tsereteli (1775–1832), daughter of Prince Zurab Tsereteli (1747–1823), Mayor of the Palace (sakhlt-ukhutsesi) of Imereti, and had the only son, Grigol.^{[citation needed]}

• David M. Lang, Prince Ioann of Georgia and His "Kalmasoba", American Slavic and East European Review, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Dec., 1952), pp. 274–287
• Soviet Georgian Encyclopedia, vol. 5, pp. 188–189. Tbilisi, 1980 (in Georgian)

• Marek, Miroslav. "The Bagration dynasty". Genealogy.EU.