Tusishvili

The House of Tusishvili (Georgian: ტუსიშვილი; archaically known as Tusisshvili, ტუსისშვილი) was a Georgian princely family, known in the eastern province of Kakheti since 1469.

Genealogy of the Princes Tusiev in the Russian Empire (1892)

History

The Tusishvili branched off the House of Zedginidze. They had their estates at Akhmeta and Gagma-Mkhari on the left bank of the Alazani. After Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801, the family was incorporated among the Russian princely houses in 1850.^[1][2]

A notable member of this family was the 18th-century churchman Saba Tusishvili, Metropolitan Bishop of Ninotsminda (1744–88), and a close associate of King Erekle II.