Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani (February 7, 1812 – March 11, 1895) was a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 nobleman of the House of Mukhrani

House of Mukhrani

The house of Mukhrani is a Georgian princely family, a collateral branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi of which it sprung early in the 16th century, and received in appanage the domain of Mukhrani located in Kartli, central Georgia...

, and general in the Imperial Russian service. He was one of the biggest Georgian landowners of that time and a modernizer of winemaking industry.

Born into a prominent aristocratic family of Prince Constantine IV of Mukhrani and Princess Khoreshan née Guramishvili

Guramishvili

Guramishvili was a Georgian noble family derived from the House of Zevdginidze and known since the 16th century in the eastern provinces of the country....

, Ivan Bagration was educated at St. Petersburg Page Corps

Page Corps

Page Corps was a military academy in Imperial Russia, which prepared sons of the nobility and of senior officers for military service....

 and enlisted in the Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod

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 Dragoon

Dragoon

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 Regiment in 1830. He participated in several expeditions against the rebellious mountaineers during the Caucasus War. In 1848, he was promoted to colonel and appointed commander of the Yerevan

Yerevan

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 Grenadier Regiment. He became major-general in 1851 and scored his most notable achievements during the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

 (1853-1856), when Bagration, being in command of the Caucasian Reserve Grenadier Brigade, played a decisive role in the defeat of the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 army at Basgedikler (near Kars

Kars

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) on November 19, 1853. For the rest of the war, he served as a governor-general

Governor-General

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 of Kutaisi

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 and defended its approaches from the invading Ottoman troops. Promoted to lieutenant-general, he was put in charge of the 18th Infantry Division in 1858.

Prince Bagration of Mukhrani resigned from military service in 1881 and was elected a Marshal of the Nobility of Tiflis Governorate

Tiflis Governorate

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 from 1885 to 1891. He owned some 25,000 dessiatin

Dessiatin

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of lands and took a big interest in winemaking. He employed French

France

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 and Georgian specialists to construct, in 1876, a large winery in his familial estate of Mukhrani which exploited a French technology of bottling to produce Georgian

Georgian wine

Georgia is one of the oldest wine producing regions of the world. The fertile valleys of the South Caucasus, which Georgia straddles, are believed by many archaeologists to be the source of the world's first cultivated grapevines and neolithic wine production, over 8,000 years ago...

 sparkling wine

Sparkling wine

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s. This brand, a winner of a Grand Prix at the 1882 St. Petersburg wine exhibition, is still produced by JSC

Joint stock company

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 "Bagrationi-1882", one of Georgia’s largest wine-producing enterprises.

Prince Bagration of Mukhrani married, in 1836, Princess Nino née Dadiani

Dadiani

Dadiani was a Georgian family of nobles, dukes and princes, and a ruling dynasty of the western Georgian province of Samegrelo.- The House of Dadiani :...

(1816-1886), by whom he had the only son, Constantine.