Prince Dmitry Bagration was born in the family of Prince Pyotr
Bagration and Yelizaveta Rodzianko. He was a great-grandson of General Prince
Kiril Bagration, himself a grandson of the Georgian monarch
Jesse of Kartli of the
Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi. Dmitry Bagration was educated as a cavalry officer and also wrote for the military press. During
World War I, he was appointed commander of the 1st Brigade of the
Savage Division in 1914. He was twice an acting commander of the division and became a lieutenant-general in 1916. After the fall of the Russian monarchy in the
February Revolution, Bagration played a role in the
Kornilov affair in August 1917, in which he stepped back from supporting General
Aleksandr Krymov's planned march against the Russian Provisional Government in
Petrograd. Soon, Bagration was dismissed from field command to the army reserve. Under the Soviet administration, he joined the
Red Army in December 1918. In 1919, he directed the High Cavalry School and took part in organizing cavalry units of the Red Army. He died the same year and was buried at the
Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Dmitry Bagration was married to Vera Zakharina (1883–1947), with one daughter, Princess Nina Bagration (d. 1927). His brother, Alexander (1862–1920), who had retired from army service as major-general in 1916, was executed by the Soviet government while being on a vacation. With the death of the Bagration brothers, the senior, royal line of the Bagrationi of Mukhrani became extinct in male line. == References ==