Giorgi Shervashidze

• Name — Mikhail • Title — Prince of Abkhazia • Reign — 1866–1918 • Full Name — Giorgi Sharvashidze • Predecessor — Mikhail • Successor — Alexander • Spouse — Elena Erastovna Andreevskaya • Royal House — Sharvashidze • Father — Prince Mikhail Sharvashidze • Mother — Princess Alexandra Dadiani • Born — 1846 • Birthplace — Sukhumi • Died — 1918 (aged 71-72) • Burial Place — Sukhumi, Sukhumi District, Abkhazia

Born in Sukhumi, into an old House of Sharvashidze, ruling family of Abkhazia, he was the son of Mikhail, Prince of Abkhazia by his second wife, Princess Alexandra Dadiani. He was educated at the Page Corps, Saint Petersburg and later became Aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia in 1866. Proclaimed as Prince of Abkhazia at Sukhumi, by the people after an uprising against the Russians, 29 July 1866. Arrested and deported to Orenburg. He was granted the right to return to Abkhazia in 1905, but he lived the rest of his life in Kutaisi.

• Illustration — Coat of arms of the Andreevskiy family Giorgi was married to Elena Erastovna Andreevskaya (1846-1918), member of an untitled Russian nobility. She was an eldest child and elder daughter of Erast Stepanovich Andreyevskiy (1809-1872), doctor, writer, official state adviser and a spokesman for the Odessa City Duma, and his wife, Princess Varvara Georgiyevna Tumanova (d. 1876), member of an ancient Russianized Georgian princely family. Her father, Erast Stepanovich Andreyevskiy, was also a founder of the Kuialnyk Estuary resort. The marriage produced no children.

Giorgi died in 1918. His body was buried in Lykhny Cemetery, Sukhumi, Sukhumi District, Abkhazia, Georgia.