* Vakhtang I, king of Iberia ( modern Georgia ) ( approximate date )

* The city of Tbilisi ( Georgia ) on the Kura River is founded by king Vakhtang I of Iberia.

* Vakhtang I of Iberia, Georgian king ( approximate date )

The Georgian Chronicle, a 13th century compilation drawing from earlier sources, reports a marriage of Vakhtang I of Iberia to Princess Helena of Byzantium, identifying her as a daughter of the predecessor of Zeno.

The Georgian Chronicle, a 13th century compilation drawing from earlier sources, reports a marriage of Vakhtang I of Iberia to Princess Helena of Byzantium, identifying her as a daughter of the predecessor of Zeno.

Flag of Iberia in 5th century, during the reign of King Vakhtang I Gorgasali.

The early reign of the Iberian king Vakhtang I dubbed Gorgasali ( 447-502 ) was marked by the relative revival of the kingdom.

King Dachi I Ujarmeli ( beginning of the 6th century AD ), who was the successor of Vakhtang I Gorgasali, moved the capital from Mtskheta to the more easily defensible Tbilisi according to the will left by his father.

The largest expansion of Iberia under Vakhtang I

Once the Hundred Years Peace between Iran and Rome collapsed, Kavadh I of the Sassanids summoned Vakhtang as a vassal to join in a new campaign against Rome.

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Varsken was in opposition to Vakhtang I Gorgasali, King of Kartli, and took a pro-Persian position, renouncing Christianity and adopting Zoroastrianism.

Peter had just died, and his successor, Catherine I gave no real help but allowed Vakhtang to settle in Russia, granting him a pension and some estates.

Vakhtang I Gorgasali – Vakhtang II of Georgia – Vakhtang III of Georgia – Vakhtang VI of Kartli – Vani – Varshalomidze, Levan – Vazha-Pshavela – Voronya Cave

The marriage of the Chosroid king Vakhtang I of Iberia to the Roman princess Helena seems to have enabled the Iberians to regain the province c. 485.

The king of Kartli, Vakhtang Gorgasali, who sought alliance with Byzantium against the Persians, accepted the Henotikon, a compromise attempt put forward by Byzantine Emperor Zeno in 482.

* " Vakhtang Gorgasali " ( a monograph ), Tbilisi, 1959 ( in Georgian )

During the reign of Vakhtang Gorgasali ( 5th century ) Rustavi took an important part in the political life of Georgia.

Since then a Bishopricpulpit had been founded in Rustavi and of the bishops out of twelve was sanctified according to the wish of Vakhtang Gorgasali.

The churches of Kartli acted against the King Vakhtang Gorgasali as they were under the influence of Persia.

In the battle the King Vakhtang Gorgasali was mortally wounded.

Ujarma was the main residence of the king Vakhtang Gorgasali, its name comes from the Persian.

According to the Life of Vakhtang Gorgasali, the king was given at his birth an Iranian name Varazkhosrovtang, rendered in Georgian as Vakhtang.

Beyond the Life of Vakhtang Gorgasali ( hereinafter LVG ), the medieval Georgian sources mention Vakhtang only briefly, yet with respect rarely afforded to the pre-Bagratid Georgian monarchs.

Vakhtang III () ( 1276 – 1308 ), of the dynasty of Bagrationi, was the king of Georgia from 1302 to 1308. he ruled during the Mongol dominance of Georgia.

* Thekla ( b. c. 1775-d. Tbilisi, 11 March 1846 ), married in 1800 Prince Vakhtang Jambakurian-Orbeliani.

Professor Ivane Javakhishvili assigns to Vakhtang ’ s rule the dates c. 449 – 502 and Professor Cyril Toumanoff the dates c. 447 – 522.

Javakhishvili puts Vakhtang ’ s death at c. 502.

Thereafter, Klarjeti remained in the possession of Vakhtang ’ s younger sons and their Romanophile descendants who formed the house of Guaramids and maintained themselves in Klarjeti and Javakheti until c. 786, when the Guaramid possessions passed to their resurgent cousins from the Bagrationi family ( Bagratids ).

** Vakhtang III of Georgia ( b. 1276 )

* Vakhtang III of Georgia ( d. 1308 )

* Shorena Kurtsikidze & Vakhtang Chikovani, Ethnography and Folklore of the Georgia-Chechnya Border: Images, Customs, Myths & Folk Tales of the Peripheries, Munich: Lincom Europa, 2008.

* Shorena Kurtsikidze and Vakhtang Chikovani, Georgia's Pankisi Gorge: An Ethnographic Survey, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2002.

* Georgian defector and composer Vakhtang Jordania resided in Broadway and died in 2004.

The art of carpet weaving was in addition intimately connected to the making of curtains as evidenced in a passage by Kirakos Gandzaketsi, a 13th century Armenian historian from Artsakh, who praised Arzu-Khatun, the wife of regional prince Vakhtang Khachenatsi, and her daughters for their expertise and skill in weaving.

Greatest representatives of Georgian culture of the 19th century were: Nikoloz Baratashvili ( poet ), Alexander Orbeliani ( writer ), Vakhtang Orbeliani ( poet ), Dimitri Kipiani ( writer ), Grigol Orbeliani ( poet ), Ilia Chavchavadze ( writer and poet ), Akaki Tsereteli ( poet ), Alexander Kazbegi ( writer ), Rapiel Eristavi ( poet ), Mamia Gurieli ( poet ), Iakob Gogebashvili ( writer ), Simon Gugunava ( poet ), Babo Avalishvili-Kherkheulidze ( actor ), Nikoloz Avalishvili ( actor ), Nikoloz Aleksi-Meskhishvili ( actor ), Romanoz Gvelesiani ( painter ), Grigol Maisuradze ( painter ), Alexander Beridze ( painter ), Ivane Machabeli ( translator ), Okropir Bagrationi ( translator ), Sardion Aleksi-Meskhishvili ( translator ), Kharlampi Savaneli ( opera singer ), Pilimon Koridze ( opera singer ), Lado Agniashvili ( folk singer ), Alioz Mizandari ( composer ), etc.

But in mid-2001 he became involved in a major controversy with the State Security Minister Vakhtang Kutateladze and Tbilisi police chief Ioseb Alavidze, accusing them of profiting from corrupt business deals.

A son of King Vakhtang VI of Kartli ( ruled 1716-1724 ), he was born in Tbilisi, 1696.

After the Ottoman occupation of Kartli, he followed King Vakhtang in his emigration to the Russian Empire in 1724.

Vakhushti was critical of the re-edition of the corpus assembled by a scholarly commission chaired by his father Vakhtang VI.

He also completed, together with his brother, Prince Bakar, the printing of the Bible in Georgian, which he had been only partly done by their father, Vakhtang VI.

Later revised by Agrippina Vaganova for the dancers Galina Ulanova and Vakhtang Chabukiani and added to the ballet La Esmeralda in 1931.

Today the Le Corsaire Pas de deux is presented in versions derived from the revisions of Agrippina Vaganova ( 1931 ) and Vakhtang Chabukiani ( circa 1940 ), among many others.

It was premiered at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad on 7 November, 1932, with Natalia Dudinskaya as Mireille de Poitiers, Vakhtang Chabukiani as Jerome, Olga Jordan as Jeanne, Nina Anisimova as Therese, and Konstantin Sergeyev as Mistral.