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right to the princely title, if she broke with the
Ottomans and immediately returned to Guria. In case of refusal, the Russian threatened to pronounce David "a traitor" and strip him of his right to rule. Paskevich's letters were intercepted by the Ottoman authorities and never reached the princess. His attempts to lure David back also failed. In the meantime, General Hesse took Kintrishi on 9 August 1829. Sofia, David, and their retinue narrowly escaped to Trebizond, where the princess, exhausted and demoralized, died on 7 September 1829 and was buried at the local Greek monastery of St. Sofia. On 9 September 1829, David was proclaimed deposed and Guria was directly annexed to the Russian Empire.
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of which Guria was a subject since 1811. Mamia maintained loyalty to Russia when the revolt spread to Guria in 1820, but the fighting and destruction plunged him into depression. He died on 21 November 1826, when David was eight years old. Three days later, the princess dowager Sofia declared her son
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to move into Guria with two battalions, ostensibly for cooperation with the Gurian forces. On the night of 1 to 2 October 1828, Sofie with her son David and the eldest daughter
Ekaterina, accompanied by loyal nobles, fled Guria to Kobuleti. The Russian troops occupied Guria, seizing Sofia's two
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and were allowed to their homeland as private citizens. On 15 September 1832, they landed at Guria's port of St. Nicholas. Rosen was impressed by David's manners and "moral qualities". The young
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to forewarn her of the consequences. Paskevich soon received reports that Sofia had clandestinely placed Guria under the sultan's protection and around 10,000 Ottoman troops were amassing close to the borders with Guria.
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and replaced them with stronger Gurian patrols, opening a line of communications with Poti and causing the
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