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Vakhtang VI (Georgian: ვახტანგ VI), also known as Vakhtang the Scholar, Vakhtang the Lawgiver and Ḥosaynqolī Khan (Persian: حسینقلی خان, romanized: Hoseyn-Qoli Xān) (September 15, 1675 – March 26, 1737), was a Georgian monarch of the royal Bagrationi dynasty. He ruled the East Georgian Kingdom of Kartli in the time of the kingdom's vassalage at the hands of Persia from 1716 to 1724. One of the most important and extraordinary statesman of early 18th-century Georgia, he is known as a notable legislator, scholar, critic, translator and poet. His reign was eventually terminated by the Ottoman invasion following the disintegration of Safavid Persia, which forced Vakhtang into exile in the Russian Empire. With Russia still short of reaching its Imperial zenith, Vakhtang was unable to get the tsar's support for his kingdom and instead had to permanently stay with his northern neighbors for his own safety. On his way to a diplomatic mission sanctioned by Empress Anna, he fell ill and died in southern Russia in 1737, never reaching Georgia.
Vakhtang VI | |
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King of Kartli | |
Reign | 1716 - July 1724 |
Coronation | 1716 |
Predecessor | Heraclius I |
Successor | Jesse |
Born | (1675-09-15)15 September 1675 |
Died | 26 March 1737(1737-03-26) (aged 61) Governorate of Astrakhan, Russian Empire |
Burial | Church of Assumption of Astrakhan |
Consort | Rusudan of Circassia |
Dynasty | Bagrationi |
Father | Levan of Kartli |
Mother | Tuta Gurieli |
Religion | Georgian Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic, Islam |
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