Prince Ioane of Georgia
| Prince Ioane Bagrationi | |
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| Head of the Royal House of Georgia | |
| Reign | 13 May 1819 – 15 February 1830 |
| Predecessor | David Bagrationi |
| Successor | Grigol Bagrationi |
| Born |
16 May 1768 Tbilisi, Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
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| Died | 15 February 1830 (aged 61) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
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| Burial | Alexander Nevsky Monastery |
| Spouse | Ketevan Tsereteli |
| Issue | Grigol Bagrationi |
| House | Bagrationi |
| Father | George XII of Georgia |
| Mother | Ketevan Andronikashvili |
| Religion | Georgian Orthodox Church |
| Occupation | writer and encyclopedist |
Ioane Bagrationi (Georgian: იოანე ბაგრატიონი) (16 May 1768 in Tbilisi, Georgia – 15 February 1830 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Georgian prince (batonishvili), writer and encyclopaedist.
A son of George XII, the last king of Kartl-Kakheti kingdom, eastern Georgia, by his first wife Ketevan Andronikashvili, Ioane commanded an avant-garde of a Georgian force annihilated by the Persian army at the Battle of Krtsanisi in 1795.
Following the battle, the kingdom entered a period of economic crisis and political anarchy. To eradicate the results of a Persian attack and to overcome the retardation of the feudal society, Prince Ioane proposed on 10 May 1799, a project of reforms of administration, army and education. This project was, however, never materialized due to the weakness of George XII and a civil strife in the country. In 1800, he commanded a Georgian cavalry in the joined Russian-Georgian forces that defeated his uncle, Alexandre Bagrationi, and the Dagestani allies at the battle of Niakhura.
Upon the death of George XII, Kartl-Kakheti was incorporated into the expanding Russian Empire, and Ioane was deported to Russia. He settled in Saint Petersburg where he wrote most of his works with a didactic encyclopedic novel Kalmasoba (1817–1828) being the most important of them.
He is also an author of a naturalist encyclopedia (1814), a children encyclopedia (1829), a Russian-Georgian dictionary, a Georgian lexicon, and of several poems.
His manuscripts were discovered in 1861 by a Georgian scholar, Dimitri Bakradze, who published them in an abridged version in 1862.
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