Prince Ilia of Georgia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Prince Ilia of Georgia

Georgian prince

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1790

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1854

Profession: linguist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ilia (Georgian: ????; Russian: ???? ??????????, Iliya Georgiyevich), also known as Elizbar (????????), (2 September 1790 – 18 July 1854) was a Georgian prince royal (batonishvili), a son of George XII, the last king of Kartli and Kakheti, by his second marriage to Mariam Tsitsishvili.
After the Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801, Ilia accompanied her mother into exile to Russia.
He then received military training and served in the Russian army, fighting with distinction at the battle of Borodino against the French in 1812 and retiring with the rank of colonel in 1823.
He had 13 children of his marriage with Princess Anastasia Obolenskaya and his descendants, bearing the surname of Gruzinsky, have survived in the 21st-century Russian Federation.