Kavkasidze

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Kavkasidze (Georgian: კავკასიძე; Russian: Кавкасидзе), later Kavkasidzev (Кавкасидзевы), was a Georgian-Russian noble house, founded by a Georgian nobleman Kalatozishvili who accompanied the crown prince Bak’ar in his Russian exile in 1724.

The Kalatozishvili family was known in Georgia since the 15th century, and were listed as royal aznauri, i.e., the petite nobility directly under the king’s vassalage. It was already in emigration that they were conferred with the title of prince and assumed the surname of Kavkasidze. In 1741, the family became Russian subjects, and received a hereditary estate in the Chernigov Governorate.

The family should not be confused with the medieval Georgian noble house of Kavkasi(s)dze known in Tao-Klarjeti in the 11th century, and whose castle still stands in what is now northeastern Turkey.

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• Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History, p. 273. Georgetown University Press.

This article is based on material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.