Tamara Chavchavadze (1853 - 1933)

Biography

Tamara (24 January 1852 – 1933), daughter of Lieutenant-General Prince David Chavchavadze. Tamar, a lady of honour to the Empress of Russia, was a prominent socialite and philanthropist. She first became known to the larger public at the age of two when she was part of the Chavchavadze family abducted and held in captivity for ten months by Imam Shamil's men in 1854 during the Crimean War.[5]

Of the couple's four children only two daughters survived into adulthood. A son, Alexander (c. 1877–1879), and a daughter, Mariam (1876–1877), died very young. The surviving elder daughter, Elisabeth (1870–1942), was a journalist and translator from Georgian and Russian into French, also known by her penname Sazandari; she was married to Prince Mamuka Orbeliani (died 1924). The younger daughter, Ekaterina (1872–1917), was married to Prince Ivan Ratiev, known for his protection of the imperial treasure of the Winter Palace during the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irakli_Gruzinsky#Family