Teymuraz Bagration

Prince Teymuraz Bagration of Mukhrani (21 August 1912 – 10 April 1992) was a Georgian-Russian nobleman and an émigré in the United States where he served as President of the Tolstoy Foundation, a New York-based charitable organization.

Prince Teymuraz Constantinovich
Photo portrait of Teymuraz in military uniform of Royal Yugoslav Army in 1932
Born(1912-08-21)21 August 1912
Pavlovsk, Russian Empire
Died10 April 1992(1992-04-10) (aged 79)
New York, U.S.
Spouse
Catherine Ratchitch
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(m. 1940⁠–⁠1946)​

Irina Czernysheva-Besobrasova
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(m. 1949)​
HouseBagration-Mukhraneli
FatherPrince Konstantine Bagration of Mukhrani
MotherPrincess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia
Military career
Allegiance Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Years of service1932–1941
RankLieutenant
UnitRoyal Guard

Life

He was born at Pavlovsk, Imperial Russia, into a formerly sovereign family. His father, Prince Konstantin Bagration-Mukhransky (1889–1915), a member of the Mukhrani branch of the Bagration family, formerly a royal dynasty of Georgia, was an Imperial Russian Army officer and was killed in World War I. Teymuraz's mother, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890–1979) was a member of the imperial Romanov dynasty of Russia. Through her, he was second cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.

Teymuraz Bagration left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, first living in Switzerland and then settling in Yugoslavia. Prince Bagration graduated in 1932 from the Krymskiy Cadet School and then studied at the Yugoslav Military Academy. He served for ten years in the Guards Mounted Artillery Regiment of the Royal Yugoslav Army. During World War II, he served in the Royal Yugoslav Army. After the war, he emigrated to the U.S. and was invited to join the Tolstoy Foundation in 1949. He became Executive Director of the Foundation in 1979 and led the organization from 1986 until his death in New York in 1992.

On 5 July 2007, Bagration's unique archive was presented by his second wife, Princess Irina, to the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.[1]

Personal life

Bagration has been married twice. The first time he married Catherine Ratchitch (4 Jul 1919, London - 20 December 1946), granddaughter of Serbian Prime minister Nikola Pašić on 27 October 1940. At the time he was 28 and she was 21, but the marriage ended with Catherine's death at the age of 27.

The second marriage was with Countess Irina Czernysheva-Besobrasova (born 26 September 1926, Neuilly-sur-Seine - 9 July 2015, New York City), the daughter of Count Sergei Aleksandrovich Czernyshev-Besobrasov and Countess Elizaveta Sheremeteva. Irina was an older sister of Countess Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov, who married 1953 Archduke Rudolf Syringus, youngest son of Karl I of Austria, the last Austrian Emperor.[2] This marriage was celebrated on 27 November 1949 and took place in New York City. He was 37 and she was 23. There was no issue of either marriage.

Ancestry

References
  1. (in Georgian) თეიმურაზ ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანსკის არქივი ეროვნულ ბიბლიოთეკას გადაეცა. National Parliamentary Library of Georgia: News. 11 July 2007.
  2. Marlene E. Koenig (10 May 2010). "Archduke Rudolph and Countess Xenia". Royal Musings. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2018. At the 1953 wedding, she is briefly mentioned as "Princess Irene Bagration" or several times as "Princess Bagration". The "100-year-old heirloom, first worn by Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenberg at her marriage to Grand Duke Constantine" worn by Xenia was probably the property of Pr Teymuraz's mother Princess Tatiana, granddaughter of Grand Duke Constantine and Alexandra of Saxe-Altenberg, although this is not mentioned.
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