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cities near zugdidi, they blocked
Mingrelia access to sea. After months of Mingrelia struggled. Niko dadiani with help of his mother Ekaterine they managed to kick Abkhazians out of Mingrelian territories and managed to capture East Abkhazia and occupy Sokhumi. After the war Niko dadiani gifted Sokhumi to the Russians but then Russians annexed whole Abkhazia
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Niko remained in St. Petersburg, enjoying the favor of the imperial family even after his mother hurried home due to a peasant revolt in
Mingrelia in May 1857. The revolt was exploited by the Russian government as a pretext to recall Princess Ekaterina back to St. Petersburg and to place the hitherto
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Durning his teenage years he went back in mingrelia with his mother to calm down the peasant by
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Nikolay (30 December 1876 – March 1919), Gentleman of the Imperial Bedchamber; he died in a Bolshevik prison hospital at St. Petersburg without issue; His body was released to his fiancée, Princess Elena
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September 1886. The Russian nominee was rejected by the Grand Assembly of Bulgaria, and the crown eventually went to the German prince
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administration. In 1867, Dadiani formally abdicated the throne and
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as an autonomous subject of the Russian Empire. With the approval of
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autonomous principality under a provisional Russian administration.
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collection, including old Georgian manuscripts, to the charity
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