Ivane Andronikashvili
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Prince Ivane Andronikashvili (Georgian: ივანე ანდრონიკაშვილი), also known as Knyaz Ivan Malkhazovich Andronnikov (Russian: Иван Малхазович Андронников) (1798 – November 19, 1868) was a Georgian noble and general in the Imperial Russian service.
He was born in Qudaghlo in the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti to Prince Malkhaz Andronikashvili and Princess Mariam Bagrationi. (In 1801, the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti became part of the Russian Empire.) His mother, Princess Mariam Bagrationi, was the sister of the last Imeretian king Solomon II. He himself was married to Princess Nino Imeretinsky, granddaughter of King David II of Imereti.
When Andronikashvili turned nineteen, he was enrolled in the St Petersburg Cavalry Regiment of the Leib Guard. In 1824 he joined the Nizhniy Novgorod dragoon regiment as a major. He served later in the Caucasus during the wars with Persia (1826-1829) and Turkey (1828-1829). He was promoted Major General in 1841 and appointed Governor General of Tiflis in 1849. He took part in the Caucasian War and led an expedition against the rebellious Ossetes in 1840 and 1850.
The Crimean War was the apex of Andronikashvili’s military career. On November 14, 1853, he defeated Ali Pasha's army of 20,000 men at Akhaltsikhe with as few as 5,000 soldiers, mostly irregular Georgian cavalrymen. He achieved another victory against considerable odds over Selim Pasha’s 36,000 troops at the Choloki River with the force of 13,000. Prince Andronikashvili was promoted General of Cavalry just a few months before his death in 1868.
Honours and awards
- Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class (1826),
- Order of St. Anna, 2nd class (1827)
- Order of St. George, 4th class (1830) and 3rd class (1853)
- Order of St. Stanislaus 1st class (1847)
- Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1854)
See also
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- 1798 births
- 1868 deaths
- Nobility of Georgia (country)
- Military personnel from Georgia (country)
- Russian military personnel of the Crimean War
- Imperial Russian Army generals
- Andronikashvili family
- Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 1st class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
- Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree
- Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky
- Russian military personnel of the Caucasian War
- People of the Russo-Persian Wars