1832 Georgian plot

1832 Georgian plot (Georgian: 1832 წლის შეთქმულება) was a conspiracy by the Georgian royalty and nobility to restore the Georgian statehood and monarchy under the royal then-dethroned Bagrationi dynasty.

Georgia was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1801, breaking the terms of the Treaty of Georgievsk. The members of the royal Bagrationi dynasty were deported to the Russian provinces far from their homeland. The Georgians, unsatisfied with the Russian rule, yearned for the removal of Russian dominance and the return of their royal dynasty which ruled over millennium. The spirit of Georgian nationalism was kept alive principally by Prince Okropir of Georgia, a son of the last Georgian monarch, George XII. Okropir with other Georgians used to hold gatherings of with Georgian students in Moscow and St. Petersburg trying to inspire them with patriotic feeling towards their country being under Russian rule. It resulted in creation of a secret society in Tbilisi which started to work for the main goal, re-establishment of an independent kingdom under the dethroned Bagrationi rule. Okropir himself visited Georgia in 1830, and held talks with the main conspirators, who included members of Georgian aristocrats from the Orbeliani and Eristavi princely houses, as well as the philosopher Solomon Dodashvili. The plot was also supported by the Georgians from the Russian-abolished Kingdom of Imereti as well as the members of the House of Shervashidze that ruled Abkhazia.

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