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4 unusual facts about Andronikashvili


Andronikashvili

His son, Constantin Andronikof (1916–1997) became a French diplomat, the Dean of St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, and translator of Sergei Bulgakov's theological writings into French.

Irakly Andronikov (1908–1990), historian, philologist and media personality

The surname Andronikashvili, meaning "children descendants of Andronikos", is attested in sixteenth-century documents, but oral tradition has it that the family descends from Alexius Comnenus (c. 1170—1199), the illegitimate son of the Eastern Roman emperor Andronikos I Komnenos (ruled 1183-1185) by his mistress and relative Theodora Komnene, Queen Dowager of Jerusalem.

The Knight at All Times

This a small country aspiration for independence from the Russian Empire; or this is the adventure of a family, the story of Andronikashvili’s seven generations from Russian Empire's annexation (1801) until Abkhazian war (1993).


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Choloki River

During the Crimean War, Russia’s 13,000 troops consisting mainly of Georgian militias under General Lieutenant Prince Ivan Malkhazovich Andronnikov (Andronikashvili) routed Sinan Pasha’s Turkish corps of 35,000 strong on the left bank of the Choloki River on June 4, 1854.


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