Archil II is the eldest of the 6 sons of the 1st King of Kartli from the House of Mukhrani.
In 1661, his father elevated him to the throne of Imereti, but due to the protest of Turkey and the demands of Iran, Archil left Imeretia in 1663, and in 1664 ascended the throne of Kakheti. The Shah approved Archil as the king of Kakheti, since he converted to Islam and began to be called Shah Nazar Khan. This time his reign was longer.
During his reign, Kakheti became economically stronger, churches began to be restored, new buildings were built. It was possible to partially stop the Lezgin raids. Despite this, the Kakhetian tavads did not recognize Archil as the legitimate king, since he was the Kartli Bagrationi, for this reason Archil married his granddaughter - sister Ketevan.
In 1674 he returned from Russia to Kakheti. Archil accepted with great honor. Soon he went to Iran. Archil was sure that the Shah would approve the throne of Kakheti. Therefore, in 1675, without asking his father for advice, he left Kakheti and moved to Imereti. And this time Archil could not take the throne of Imereti for a long time, although he was determined to continue the fight, and to implement his plans he decided to turn to Russia for help. Archil sent an embassy to the king.
In 1682 he invited Archil to Russia. In the same year, Archil arrived in Astrakhan. With him were: his wife, Princess Ketevan; sons: Alexander, Mamuka, David and daughter Darejan. Archil lived in Astrakhan for three years and arrived in Moscow only in 1685. Immediately upon arrival, Archil began a vigorous political and cultural activity.
At the same time (in 1687), the ambassadors of the King of Kartli, brother Archil, Archimandrite Lavrenty and monk David Turkestanishvili arrived in Moscow and offered the Russian Tsar a military-political alliance. And Archil was given a message from his brother to return to Georgia, calling him again to the throne of Imereti.
In 1688 Archil II returned from Russia with his sons Alexander and Mamuka. Diplomatic negotiations with the Crimean Khan and Turkey (which were conducted by David Turkestanishvili, who traveled to Bakhchisarai and Istanbul for this purpose) allowed Archil II to receive the support of the Sultan, who granted him Imereti in 1690, sent a saber and a robe and ordered the Arzrum pasha to be appointed king. Alexander, who then occupied the throne of Imereti, had to go to Kartli, where King Heraclius I ruled.
A year later, the Turks, however, again returned the throne to Alexander, and Archil II had to leave Imereti.
Archil was twice invited to the throne of Imereti. After his death (1695), his widow Queen Tamar and her father Prince G. Abashidze invited Archil II to the throne, but he refused to marry Tamar. Then Abashidze found another candidate, according to Vakhushti Bagrationi, "a certain Giorgi, who was named a relative of the kings, they brought him and married Tamar, the daughter of Abashidze, and named him king."
Archil II had to leave for Dvaleti. “And this Georgi,” adds Vakhushti, “was ugly in everything and unsuitable for kingship, rude, incapable of anything other than peasant work, and at the same time crippled. However, Giorgi Abashidze ruled and ruled over all names.” It took Tamar a year for her to hate her husband, and her father renewed his offer to Archil. He refused. In 1698, the emperors themselves drove out Georgi, who was called Gochia, and called Archil II. As the same Vakhushti writes, he “did not hope for a long reign” and did not believe in the devotion of those who called him to the throne, but under pressure from his relatives, he nevertheless came to Imeretia.
Having learned about the accession of Archil II, the Sultan ordered the Akhaltsikhe Pasha to drive him from the throne. Not having the strength to fight against the Turks, especially since the Imeretian feudal lords supported another contender for the throne - Simon, the illegitimate son of Tsar Alexander, Archil II moved to Tagauri and spent the winter there. After the failure of his political plans, Archil decided that he had nothing more to do in Georgia, and in the spring of 1699, at the invitation of the king, he left his homeland forever.
Archil returned to Russia, where his son Alexander began his service next to him, and where his children were buried in the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow: David (died in 1688) and Mamuka (died in 1693). From that time until his death, Archil lived in Moscow, where he was engaged in history and literature. In 1700, he allocated three estates to Archil in Nizhny Novgorod province and three thousand souls of serfs, which contributed to the foundation of the first Georgian settlement in Russia. In the village of Vsekhsvyatskoye (near Moscow), a Georgian colony was founded.
Archil also created the first Georgian printing house. He owns a poem of historical content “The Dispute between Teimuraz and Rustaveli”, which describes the story of Queen Tamara and the life of the Tsar-poet Teimuraz I. In a poetic message about the Battle of Poltava, he sang Peter I and is the author of the poetry collection “Archiliani”.
In 1711 Archil's son Alexander was buried in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow. Soon his brothers were reburied here. At the burial place of his sons, Archil built the Sretensky Church, in the lower aisle of the Great Cathedral, where he founded a family tomb and in which he himself was buried in 1713.
Compilation: vkuznetsov1647 - 1713
King of Imereti and Kakheti, lyric poet, eldest son of King Vakhtang V of Kartli
Biography
Born in 1647. In 1661, his father elevated him to the throne of Imereti. In 1664-1675 he was the king of Kakheti. In 1681 he moved to Russia with his children. Later he returned and for some time occupied the throne of Imereti. In 1699 he finally emigrated to Russia and settled in Moscow. was engaged literary activity, wrote the poetry collection "Archiliani". He became one of the founders of the Georgian colony in the village of Vsekhsvyatsky near Moscow. Under him, the first Georgian printing house was opened there.
Was married twice. The first wife is the daughter of Prince Nodar Tsitsishvili. Second wife - Ketevan, granddaughter of the king of Kakheti Teimuraz I(since 1667/68). All children from the second marriage:
- Alexander Archilovich (1674-1711) - the first Feldzeugmeister General in the history of Russia
- Matvey Archilovich (Mamuka, 1676-1693)
- Daria Archilovna(Darejan, 1678-1740)
- David Archilovich
Died February 16, 1713. He was buried in the Moscow Donskoy Monastery, in the Sretenskaya Church - the lower aisle of the Great Cathedral, where he founded the family tomb.
The holy martyr Tsar Archil II belonged to the Khosroid dynasty and was a direct descendant of the holy noble Tsar Mirian (+ 342)...
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Holy Martyr King Archil II belonged to the Khosroid dynasty and was a direct descendant of the holy noble king Mirian (+ 342).
During the reign of Archil II, Georgia was subjected to a devastating invasion of Murvan-Kru (Deaf), so called by the Georgian people for his inexorable cruelty. The situation of the Georgians was hopeless, and King Archil II, together with his brother Mir, the ruler of Western Georgia, with tears asked for the intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos. And she showed her mercy.
In the battle at the rivers Abasha and Tskhenistskhali, the Georgians miraculously won a victory over the vastly superior forces of Murvan-Kru.
After this victory, the faithful king Archil II set about restoring the Georgian kingdom. He restored the city of Nukhpatis, restored the destroyed temples in Mtskheta and promoted the adoption of Christianity by many mountain tribes.
However, soon Georgia was subjected to a new Arab invasion - the unexpected invasion of Jijum-Asim. Regularly paying tribute to the Arabs, the noble king did not expect this attack. In order to save the country from a new defeat and from Islam being imposed on it, he considered it good to come to Jijum-Asim himself, recognize the vassalage of Georgia and ask for peace.
Placing all hope on the mercy of God and preparing to lay down his life for the holy faith and for his people, Saint Archil appeared in the camp of the Arabs. Jijum-Asim received him hospitably and promised his patronage, but insisted on accepting Islam. As the "Chronicle of Georgia" tells, the holy king Archil calmly answered: " It will not be that I leave Christ, the True God, Who took upon Himself human flesh for our salvation. Know that if I obey you, I will die an eternal death and suffer forever; But if you put me to death for my firmness, then I will rise again, like my Lord, and I will come to Him."
Hearing these words, Dzhidzhum-Asim ordered to bind the confessor and take him to prison. But neither torture, nor persuasion, nor promises could make the faithful King Archil an apostate.
March 20, 744holy king Archil was martyred by beheading. The body of the martyr was secretly taken by Christian Georgians to the town of Ertso and buried in Kakheti, in the Notkor church, built by the pious king himself.
Holy Martyr Blessed Tsar of Georgia Luarsab II was born in 1587. He was the son of George X (1600 - 1603), poisoned by the Persian Shah Abbas I (1584 - 1628). After the death of his father, Luarsab stayed with his two sisters, Khoreshan and Elena. He was still a youth, but distinguished by reason and piety, and, despite his young age, he was crowned the kingdom of Kartalinsky with the name of Luarsaba II.
In 1609, Georgia was invaded by Turkish troops led by Delhi Mamad Khan. The young king gave a decisive battle to the Turks near the village of Kvenadkotsi (between Gori and Surami). On the eve of the battle 14 thousandth Georgian militia spent the whole night in vigilant prayers, and in the morning, after the Divine Liturgy and the acceptance of the Holy Mysteries by all, in a heroic battle, the Georgian soldiers fled 60 thousandth enemy army .
The Persian Shah Abbas I, alarmed by this victory of the Georgians and consumed by envy of Luarsab II, looked in every possible way for an opportunity to destroy him.
Saint Luarsab II was forced, saving Kartli (Central Georgia) from ruin, to marry the Mohammedan Shah Abbas I, his sister Elena, at his request. But this did not stop the Shah. After some time, he invaded Georgia with a huge army. Due to the betrayal of several feudal lords, the noble king Luarsab II and the Kakhetian king Teimuraz I were forced at the end of 1615 to retire to Imeretia (Western Georgia) to the king of Imereti George III (1605 - 1639).
Shah Abbas I devastated Kakheti and, threatening the ruin of Kartli, demanded Luarsab II to himself, promising, in case of his arrival, to make peace. The noble king Luarsab II, trying to save the temples of Kartli from devastation, went to Shah Abbas with the words: " I will place all my hope in Christ, and whatever fate awaits me there, life or death, may the Lord God be blessed!"
Shah Abbas I received Saint Luarsab II peacefully and seemed to be ready to fulfill his promises.
After a joint hunt, Shah Abbas invited him to Mazandaran, but at dinner Luarsab II refused to eat fish (because it was Lent) despite the persuasion and demands of the Shah. The enraged shah began to insist that the Georgian king adopted Mohammedanism, for which he promised to let go to Kartli with great treasures, otherwise threatening a painful death.
The pious King Luarsab II, who observed strict fasts from childhood and constantly prayed, with no doubt rejected the Shah's harassment. Then he was tied up and imprisoned in the impregnable fortress of Gulab-Kala, near Shiraz.
Bishop Nikolai of Mrovel narrates that the noble king Luarsab seven years was in the dungeon in chains, enduring terrible oppression and frequent beatings, forced to accept Mohammedanism.
But the holy confessor remained faithful to the Holy Church of Christ and martyred in 1622 at the age of 35. Two of his faithful servants were martyred with him.
The bodies of the holy martyrs were thrown at night in a dungeon without burial, but the next day the Christians buried them in the earth in a common grave.
Archil II, holy martyr, king of Iver
The Holy Martyr King Archil II belonged to the Chosroid dynasty and was a direct descendant of the holy and faithful King Mirian († 342).
During the reign of Archil II, Georgia was subjected to a devastating invasion of Murvan-Kru (Deaf), so called by the Georgian people for his inexorable cruelty. The situation of the Georgians was hopeless, and King Archil II, together with his brother Mir, the ruler of Western Georgia, with tears asked for the intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos. And she showed her mercy.
In the battle at the rivers Abasha and Tskhenis-tskhali, the Georgians miraculously won a victory over the vastly superior forces of Murvan-Kru.
After this victory, the noble prince Archil II began to restore Georgian kingdom. He restored the city of Nukhpatis, restored the destroyed temples in Mtskheta and promoted the adoption of Christianity by many mountain tribes. However, soon Georgia was subjected to a new Arab invasion - the unexpected invasion of Jijum-Asim. Regularly paying tribute to the Arabs, the noble king did not expect this attack. In order to save the country from a new defeat and from Islam being imposed on it, he considered it good to come to Jijum-Asim himself, recognize the vassalage of Georgia and ask for peace. Placing all hope on the mercy of God and preparing to lay down his life for the holy faith and for his people, Saint Archil appeared in the camp of the Arabs. Jijum-Asim received him hospitably and promised his patronage, but insisted on accepting Islam. As the “Chronicle of Georgia” tells, the holy king Archil calmly answered: “It will not be that I leave Christ, the True God, Who for our salvation took upon Himself human flesh. Know that if I obey you, I will die an eternal death and suffer forever; But if you put me to death for my firmness, then I will rise again, like my Lord, and I will come to Him.”
Hearing these words, Dzhidzhum-Asim ordered to bind the confessor and take him to prison. But neither torture, nor persuasion, nor promises could make the faithful King Archil an apostate.
On March 20, 744, the holy king Archil was martyred by beheading. The body of the martyr was secretly taken by Christian Georgians to the town of Ertso and buried in Kakheti, in the Notkor church, built by the pious king himself.
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