Ilia of Georgia

Ilia, also known as Elizbar (ელიზბარი), was a Georgian prince royal (batonishvili), a son of George XII, the last king of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti, by his second marriage to Mariam Tsitsishvili. After the Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801, Ilia accompanied his mother into exile to Russia. He then received military training and served in the Russian army, fighting with distinction at the battle of Borodino against the French in 1812 and retiring with the rank of colonel in 1823. He had 13 children of his marriage with Princess Anastasia Obolonskaya and his descendants, bearing the surname of Gruzinsky, have survived in the 21st-century Russian Federation.