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Alexander Orbeliani

Died in 1869

Alexander Orbeliani was born in Tbilisi on 24 May 1802, son of Prince Vakhtang Orbeliani and Princess Tekla, daughter of King Heraclius II. He entered Russian military service in 1817 and in 1832, with his mother and his brother Vakhtang, led the conspiracy meant to overthrow Russian rule: the plot failed and he was arrested and then exiled to Orenburg, from where he returned only in 1840. A poet, dramatist, journalist and historian, he then devoted his work to the Georgian past and left an abundant documentary prose. He died on 28 December 1869.

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