Prince Teymuraz K. Bagration (August 21, 1912 – April 10, 1992) was a Georgian-Russian nobleman and an émigré in the United States where he served as President of the Tolstoy Foundation, a New York-based charitable organization.
He was born at Pavlovsk, Imperial Russia, into the prominent aristocratic family. His father, Prince Konstantin Bagration-Mukhransky (1889-1915), a member of the Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi family, formerly a royal dynasty of Georgia, was an Imperial Russian Army officer and was killed in World War I. Teymuraz's mother, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890-1979) was a member of the Romanov Dynasty of Russia.
Teymuraz Bagration left Russia after the 1917 Revolution. During World War II, he served in the Royal Yugoslav Army. After the war, he emigrated to the U.S. and joined Tolstoy Foundation in 1949. He became Executive Director in 1979 and led the organization from 1986 until his death at New York in 1992. He was known for his efforts to resettle Georgian, Russian and other ethnic refugees from the Soviet Union and East European countries. He was also involved in the resettlement of refugees from Vietnam, Tibet, Cuba, Uganda, and other countries. As a member of CARE and Interaction, a coalition of more than 100 charitable organizations, Bagration was instrumental in assisting displaced persons who came to the U.S.
On July 5, 2007, Bagration's unique archive was presented by his second wife, Princess Irina, to the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.[1]
Bagration has been married twice. The first time he married Catherine Ratchitch (4 Jul 1919 London - 20 Dec 1946) on 27 October 1940: at the time he was 28 and she was 21, but the marriage ended with Catherine's death at 27 years old.
The second marriage was with Irina Czerisheva-Besobrasova (born 21 Sep 1926): the marriage was celebrated on 27 November 1949 and took place in New York City. He was 37 and she was 23.