Legend Bagrationi monarchs Bagrationi today Many members of the Bagrationi dynasty were forced to flee the country and live in exile after the
Red Army took control of the short-lived
Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1921 and installed the
Georgian Communist Party. Since
Georgia regained independence in 1990 the dynasty have raised their profile, and in 2008 the two rival branches were united by marriage of the
House of Mukhrani pretender
David Bagration of Mukhrani and
Ana Bagration-Gruzinsky, the eldest daughter of the Gruzinsky pretender
Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky. The marriage ended in divorce in 2013, but produced a son named
Giorgi. On 1 March 2025 Prince Nugzar died, the Gruzinski line went extinct in the male line and Ana became the rival pretender to her ex-husband with Giorgi as their shared heir apparent (his only child and her only son). ==Timeline==