Ekaterine Chavchavadze

Ekateriné Dadiani, Princess of Mingrelia of the House of Dadiani, was a prominent 19th-century Georgian aristocrat and the last ruling princess of the Principality of Mingrelia in Western Georgia. She was regent during the minority of her son between 1853 and 1857. She played an important role in resisting Ottoman influence in her principality and was at the center of Georgian high society, both inside the country and abroad.