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'''Tsereteli''' ({{lang-ka|წერეთელი}}) is a former noble family in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], which gave origin to several notable writers, politicians, scholars, and artists.
== History ==
According to traditional accounts, the family’s ancestors had been chieftains in [[Dagestan]]<ref>{{ge icon}} იოანე ბატონიშვილი ([[Ioane Bagrationi]]; 1768-1830). [http://www.geogen.ge/index.php?id_menu=12&id_menu_up=2&lang=&id_let=29&abc=1 "წერეთელი (იმერეთის თავადნი)" (Tsereteli [Princes of Imereti])]. შემოკლებით აღწერა საქართველოსა შინა მცხოვრებთა თავადთა და აზნაურთა გვარებისა (''The Brief Description of the Georgian Noble Houses''). Retrieved on [[April 12]], [[2007]].</ref> or [[Ossetia]],<ref name="B&E">{{ru icon}} [http://www.rulex.ru/01230056.htm Церетели]. ''Russian Biographic Lexicon''. Retrieved on [[April 12]], [[2007]].</ref> who fled the [[Islamization]] of their homeland by [[Tamerlane]] and moved, through [[Circassia]], into [[Christianity|Christian]] Georgia in 1395. [[Constantine II of Imereti|Constantine II]], [[Kingdom of Imereti|King of Imereti]] (west Georgia) from 1392 to 1401, enfeoffed them of [[Sachkhere]] and conferred the dignity of prince (''[[tavadi]]'') upon them. The Tsereteli held a fiefdom in Upper Imereti called Satseretlo (საწერეთლო; "of Tsereteli") with their residence at Modinakhe, and eventually turned into one of the preeminent aristocratic families in Georgia. They frequently intermarried with other Georgian noble houses and even with the branches of [[Bagrationi]] royal dynasty in both western and eastern Georgia (e.g., Prince David Tsereteli married the sister of [[Alexander V of Imereti]] in 1736, while Zurab Tsereteli married his daughter, Kethevan, to the royal prince [[Ioane Bagrationi|Ioann of Georgia]] in 1787).
A branch of the family followed King [[Vakhtang VI of Kartli]] in his 1724 emigration to [[Imperial Russia]], where they came to be known as '''Tsertelev''' ({{lang-ru|Цертелев}}, Церетели) and were absorbed into the Russian nobility.<ref name="B&E"/>
== Princes of Satseretlo ==
c. 1380-1590 – Twelve anonymous princes
*Kveli (c. 1590-1620)
*Bezhan, son (c. 1620-39)
*Kaikhosro, son (c. 1640-60)
*Kveli, brother (c. 1660-63)
*Kveli, son of Kaikhosro (c. 1663-1710)
*Papuna, son (c. 1710-38)
*Kaikhosro, son (1738-69)
*Papuna, son (1769-90)
*Kaikhosro, son (1790-1810)
1810 to Russia; henceforth, princes (''[[knyaz]]'') Tsereteli.
== Notable members ==
=== Tsereteli ===
*[[Akaki Tsereteli]] (1840-1915), a prominent Georgian poet and public figure
*[[Giorgi Tsereteli (writer)|Giorgi Tsereteli]] (1842-1900), Georgian writer and journalist
*[[Giorgi Tsereteli]] (1904-1973), Georgian Orientalist
*[[Grigol Tsereteli]] (1878-1938), Georgian philologist
*[[Irakli Tsereteli]] (1882-1959), Georgian [[Menshevik]] politician
*[[Mikheil Tsereteli]] (1878-1965), Georgian scholar, politician, and journalist
*[[Shalva Tsereteli]] (1894-1955), [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] security official and [[Beria]]’s associate
*[[Tamara Tsereteli]] (1900-1968), [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] songstress.
*[[Vasil Tsereteli]] (1862-1937), Georgian politician and physician
*[[Zurab Tsereteli]] (born 1934), modern [[Russians|Russo]]-[[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] painter and sculptor
=== Tsertelev ===
*[[Nikolay Tsertelev|Nikolay Andreyevich Tsertelev]] (Mikola Andriyovich Tsertelev; 1790-1869), Russian-[[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] ethnographer and the first enthusiast of Ukrainian folklore.
*[[Aleksey Tsertelev|Aleksey Nikolayevich Tsertelev]] (1848-1883), Russian diplomat and writer.
*[[Dmitry Tsertelev|Dmitry Nikolayevich Tsertelev]] (1852-1911), Russian writer and philosopher.
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Georgian families]]
[[Category:Georgian noble houses]]
[[Category:Russian nobility]]
[[de:Zereteli]]
[[ru:Церетели]]