Kingdom of Kakheti
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The Kingdom of Kakheti was a late medieval and early modern monarchy in eastern Georgia, centered at the province of Kakheti, with its capital first at Gremi and then at Telavi. It emerged in the proc
King Levan presided over the most prosperous period in the history of the Kakhetian realm
Alexander II of Kakheti with his Georgian troops at the conquest of Sheki in Shirvan with the Ottomans on 10 September 1578. Nusretname, Topkapi, H.1365
The ruins of a royal castle at Gremi.
Teimuraz I of Kakheti and his wife Khoreshan. A sketch from the album of the contemporaneous Roman Catholic missionary Cristoforo Castelli.
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
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The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti was created in 1762 by the unification of the two eastern Georgian kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti. It was led by the Georgian royal Bagrationi dynasty.
Kingdom of Kakheti
…Kingdom of Georgia in 1466 and existed, with several brief intermissions, until 1762 when Kakheti and the neighboring Georgian kingdom of Kartli were merged through a dynastic succession under the Kakhetian branch of the Bagrationi dynasty. Through much of this period, the kingdom was a vassal of the…
Entrance of the Russian troops in Tiflis, 26 November 1799, by Franz Roubaud, 1886
George XII of Georgia