Teymuraz Bagration
| Prince Teymuraz Constantinovich | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 August 1912 Pavlovsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | 10 April 1992 (aged 79) New York, U.S. |
| House | Bagration-Mukhraneli |
| Father | Prince Constantin Bagration-Mukhransky |
| Mother | Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia |
Prince Teymuraz Constantinovich Bagration (21 August 1912 – 10 April 1992) was a Georgian-Russian nobleman and an émigré in the United States where he served as President of the Tolstoy Foundation, a New York-based charitable organization.
He was born at Pavlovsk, Imperial Russia, into a formerly sovereign family. His father, Prince Constantin Bagration-Mukhransky (1889–1915), a member of the Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi family, formerly a royal dynasty of Georgia, was an Imperial Russian Army officer and was killed in World War I. Teymuraz's mother, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890–1979) was a member of the imperial Romanov dynasty of Russia.
Teymuraz Bagration left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, first living in Switzerland and then settling in Yugoslavia. Prince Bagration graduated in 1932 from the Krymskiy Cadet School and then studied at the Yugoslav Military Academy. He served for ten years in the Guards Mounted Artillery Regiment of the Royal Yugoslav Army. During World War II, he served in the Royal Yugoslav Army. After the war, he emigrated to the U.S. and was invited to join the Tolstoy Foundation in 1949. He became Executive Director of the Foundation in 1979 and led the organization from 1986 until his death in New York in 1992.
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