Ivane Jambakurian-Orbeliani
Prince Ivane Jambakurian-Orbeliani was a Georgian prince who served as Russian Imperial general and governor of Kutaisi in western Georgia.
Biography
He was born as a member of one of the most important princely families of Georgia, the House of Orbeliani. His parents were Prince Mamuka Tomazovich Orbeliani and Princess Ketevan Eristavi of Ksani. His family originated from Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire.He was in the army since the 1860s. His first success was shown in the battles with the mountaineers and later he also took part in the Russian-Turkish war. As a lieutenant he fought in the Caucasus, by 1883 he was already a colonel and six years later a major-general.
He was also the commander of the:
- Caucasian Military District
- 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Caucasian Cossack Division
- Terek Cossack Division
- 2nd Brigade Terek Cossack
Family and descendants
In Tiflis in 1872, he married his cousin Princess Maria Dmitrievna Svyatopolk-Mirsky, daughter of the Russian General Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky and his wife, Princess Sophia Yakovlevna Orbeliani. They had three children:- Prince Makar Orbeliani. In 1898, he married Princess Elizabeth of the Bagration dynasty, the daughter of Prince Irakli Gruzinsky and Princess Tamar Chavchavadze.
- Princess Sonia Orbeliani. She never married, but dedicated herself to the Russian court. She was one of the Maids-of-Honor of the "Imperial Bedchamber to Her Majesty", the highest rank for the hundreds of women who held the position at Court. She was a close friend of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse). She died of a progressive spinal disease.
- Prince Dmitry Orbeliani. A personal assistant of the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia. Dmitry married Countess Vera von Kleinmichel. They had an only daughter Princess Galena Dmitrievna Orbeliani, who was born soon after her father's death.