Vakhvakhishvili

The House of Vakhvakhishvili (ვახვახიშვილი) is a Georgian noble family, originally known, since the twelfth century, in the province of Samtskhe whence they later moved to the kingdom of Kakheti.

History
In the mid-17th century, they acquired the hereditary office of the Grand Master of the Hunt of Kakheti, and were listed among the Kakhetian nobility in a special document attached to the Russo-Georgian Treaty of Georgievsk of 1783. After the Russian annexation of Georgia, the family was confirmed in the princely rank (knyaz Vakhvakhov, Вахваховы) by the decrees of 1825 and 1850.