Khevsurians
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Khevsurians are an ethnographic group of Georgians, mainly living in Khevsureti, on both sides of the Caucasus Mountain Chain in the watersheds of the rivers Aragvi and Argun. There are some villages
Khevsurians in traditional dress (apr. 1900)
Khevsurians in traditional dress in 1920.
Prince Alexander of Georgia
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Alexander was a Georgian royal prince of the Bagrationi dynasty, who headed several insurrections against the Russian rule in Georgia. He was known as Eskandar Mīrzā in Persia, tsarevich Aleksandr Ira
Khevsurians
…blonde to black. In autumn of 1811, the Khevsurians and Ingush joined the uprising that broke out in the region of Kakheti led by the fugitive Georgian prince Alexander. Between 1951 and 1953, Soviet authorities forcibly resettled many Khevsurs from their traditional mountain homeland to designated lowland areas. The…
Alexander, Prince of Georgia
The battle on the Iori in 1800
Umma Khan of Avary hosting Prince Alexander as imagined by the artist Khalil-Bek Musayasul (1897–1949).
Tabriz in the 1840s