Aleksandr Sharvashidze

Aleksandr Sharvashidze
1913 portrait by Vladimir Rossinsky
Prince of Abkhazia
Reign1918–1968
PredecessorGiorgi Mikhailovitch Sharvashidze
SuccessorGeorge Vladimirovitch Shervashidze
BornAleksandr Konstantinovich Chachba-Sharvashidze
ალექსანდრე კონსტანტინის ძე შარვაშიძე
Алеқсандр Константин-иҧа Чачба-Шарвашиӡе

24 December [O.S. 12 December] 1867
Feodosia, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire
Died17 August 1968(1968-08-17) (aged 100)
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Burial
HouseHouse of Shervashidze
FatherPrince Konstantine Giorgi Shervashidze
MotherNathalie de Enloy de la Garde
Occupation

Prince Aleksandr Konstantinovich Chachba-Sharvashidze (Georgian: ალექსანდრე კონსტანტინის ძე შარვაშიძე; Abkhaz: Алеқсандр Константин-иҧа Чачба-Шарвашиӡе; 1867–1968) was a Georgian-Abkhazian Chachba, graphic designer, painter, scenographer and art critic.

Following the death of his cousin, Giorgi Mikhailovitch Sharvashidze in 1918, Sharvashidze succeed the Abkhazian throne in pretence. From 1920 onwards Sharvashidze lived in exile in Paris.