Background
Prince Levan was the son of Prince Bakar of Kartli who had followed his father Vakhtang VI of Kartli, the king of Kartli, into exile to Russia in 1724.
Prince Levan was the son of Prince Bakar of Kartli who had followed his father Vakhtang VI of Kartli, the king of Kartli, into exile to Russia in 1724.
Levan was educated at the University of Moscow and, beyond Georgian and Russian, commanded Latin, French, and German languages.
In Russia he bore the surname of Gruzinsky. Like many of his family members and relatives, he then pursued military career. Levan was keenly interested in history and authored one of the first Georgian textbooks in world history, outlining the history of about 50 countries and peoples.
Prince Levan died on 23 June 1763.
He was buried at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow. In 1752 Levan married Princess Aleksandra Yakovlevna Sibirsky (1728-1793), whose grandmother was sister of the Tsaritsa of Russia Agafya Grushetskaya.
Prince Levan lived 13 years in marriage and left a widowed 35-year-old wife. The couple had nine children, of whom, Princess Anna married Alexander Dadiani of the Georgian noble House of Dadiani.
The children of Prince Levan with Princess Aleksandra Sibirsky were:
Iakob Gruzinsky
Dimitri Bagration-Gruzinsky
Leon Bagration-Gruzinsky
Alexander Bagration-Gruzinsky
Marta Bagration-Gruzinsky
Daria Bagration-Gruzinsky
Maria Bagration-Gruzinsky
Sofia Bagration-Gruzinsky
Anastasia Bagration-Gruzinsky
He was the last direct male descendant of King Vakhtang VI of Kartli and the last in the Gruzinsky line.