Vakhtang Tchutchunashvili (died 1668) 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...

 adventurer who usurped the crown of Imereti

Kingdom of Imereti

The Kingdom of Imereti was established in 1455 by a member of the house of Bagration when the Kingdom of Georgia was dissolved into rival kingdoms. Before that time, Imereti was considered a separate kingdom within the Kingdom of Georgia, to which a cadet branch of the Bagration royal family held...

, western Georgia, in the years of 1660-1661 and 1668.

In 1660, Queen Dowager Darejan, the widow of Alexander III of Imereti

Alexander III of Imereti

Alexander III , of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Imereti from 1639 to 1660.Alexander succeeded upon the death of his father, George III of Imereti, in 1639. Most of his reign was spent in the struggle against the powerful prince of Mingrelia, Levan II Dadiani, who refused to acknowledge...

, deposed and blinded his stepson and the legitimate king Bagrat V

Bagrat III of Imereti

Bagrat III , of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Imereti from April 1, 1510, to 1565. He succeeded upon the death of his father, Alexander II, and faced repeated assaults from the Ottoman Turks as well as the conflicts with his ostensible vassal princes of Mingrelia, Guria, and Abkhazia who...

, and then married Tchutchunashvili, a petite noble, whom she installed as king of Imereti. Deposed by Prince Vameq Dadiani of Mingrelia and the great nobles with Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 support, Darejan and Vakhtang fled to Akhaltsikhe

Akhaltsikhe

Akhaltsikhe is a small city in Georgia's southwestern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. It is situated on the both banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates from Georgian as "new fortress".- History...

, in the Ottoman-held Georgian province. He was restored by the pasha

Pasha

Pasha or pascha, formerly bashaw, was a high rank in the Ottoman Empire political system, typically granted to governors, generals and dignitaries. As an honorary title, Pasha, in one of its various ranks, is equivalent to the British title of Lord, and was also one of the highest titles in...

 of Akhaltsikhe in 1668. According to various, frequently conflicting accounts, he murdered his wife Darejan at the palace of Kutaisi

Kutaisi

Kutaisi is Georgia's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi.-Geography:...

, but himself was killed by the rightful king Bagrat who was restored by the Imeretian nobility to the throne.