Tusishvili

The House of Tusishvili was a Georgian princely family, known in the eastern province of Kakheti since 1469.

History

The Tusishvili branched off the House of Zedginidze. They had their estates at Akhmeta and Gagma-Mkhari on the left bank of the Alazani. After Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801, the family was incorporated among the Russian princely houses in 1850.
A notable member of this family was the 18th-century churchman Saba Tusishvili, Metropolitan Bishop of Ninotsminda, and a close associate of King Erekle II.