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Alexander Chavchavadze

Died in 1846

Alexander Chavchavadze, born in Saint Petersburg in 1786 and a godson of Catherine II, was the son of Garsevan Chavchavadze, ambassador of the kings of Georgia to Russia and signatory of the Treaty of Georgievsk. Educated at a boarding school in Petersburg and then in the corps of pages, he was caught up in the uprising of 1804, wounded at Leipzig and entered Paris with the Allies. Implicated in the conspiracy of 1832, exiled and then pardoned, he ended as a lieutenant general. His salon in Tiflis and his estate at Tsinandali received Pushkin and Griboyedov, who married his daughter Nino. A carriage accident killed him in 1846.

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