Telavi November 7, 2014 HRH Anna Bragationi-Gruzinski of Georgia attended local event of her ancestor birthday King Ereckle II. HRH Crown Prince Nugzar Bagrationi-Gruzinski is the rightful lineal successor of the last kings of united Georgia, the rightful successor of the last kings of the kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti, and the senior descendant by primogeniture in the male line of Giorgi XII. Erekle II born Nov. 7 (18), 1720, in Telavi; died there Jan. 11 (22), 1798. Georgian king, statesman, and general. Became king of Kakhetia in 1744 and of the Kartlian-Kakhetian Kingdom (Eastern Georgia) in 1762. Born in Telavi, the center of Kakheti region of Georgia, Heraclius was a son Teimuraz II of Kakheti and his wife Tamar, daughter of Vakhtang VI of Kartli. Erekle II was descended from the dynasty of the Kakhetian Bagrations. He sought to unite the separate Georgian domains into a centralized state, free from Iranian and Turkish domination, and to broaden the power of Georgia in Transcaucasia. He concluded the Georgievsk Treaty of 1783 which concerned Russia’s protectorate over eastern Georgia. Erekle H’s domestic policy was directed toward an increase in the productive forces of the country—toward the struggle against the system of large domains (the satavados) and toward the organization of defense, including the establishment in 1773 of a standing army, the morige. He paid particular attention to the Georgian countryside, the settlement of uninhabited districts, and the limitation of the tyranny of the feudal lords by the standards of law. Under Erekle II, the sale of peasants without land and of domestic serfs separate from their families was prohibited. State schools and seminaries were established in Tbilisi (1756) and in Telavi (1782). Heraclius died in 1798 he was succeeded by his son, George XII.
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