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the brother of Aghsartan, according to Grigol. It is clear in the respective part
of the text that Aghsartan was a famous person. This part does not need fur-
ther elucidation. The only person who would correspond to the description
is Aghsartan - the King of Kakheti, the son of Gagik, and the grandson of David
- the great king of Tashir-Dzorageti. If this assumption is right, the relatives
of Grigol on his sister’s side were the Kvirikian of Tashir-Dzhorageti and
Kakheti. This clarifies who the people, referred to by Grigol as his relatives
“of Armenian faith”, actually were. Here, we would like to remember one more
note that Grigol Bakurianisdze provides about himself. “Me too, with my ser-
vants and rudunebi, was looking for a living place in Armenia, in Georgia and
Sasarkinozeti (Muslim World) and later in Greece” (Shanidze, Georgian
Monastery in Bulgaria... p. 101 (8-9)).  As we can see Grigol served in Armenia
and later in Georgia before serving in Greece, i. e. the Caesar of Byzantium.
Which Armenia does he imply in this case? From 1021 the Kingdom of Vaspu-
rakan was a part of Byzantium. Byzantium  joined in the Kingdom of Shirak
formally from 1041 and de facto from 1045 (after the captivation of Gagik).
Thus, for a man born in about 1026-1027 the only Armenia (not counting the
Kingdom of Vananda, which, however, is not referred to as Armenia by Geor-
gian sources and hence, Georgian of the historical period in question) where
a teenager of 17-18 could have started serving in 1043-1044 and also referred
to Georgians as the Armenians of this Kingdom, could have been Shatir-Dzor-
ageti. In reality,  Gagik (1037 – 1058), the son of David Umitsatsklo (990 –
1048) ruled over the United Kingdom of Kakheti and Hereti at that time and
it would not have been difficult for a representatives of the Kakhetian family
to gain a good position and the due honour at the court of the father-king. 
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