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The Tchkotoua Family

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The Tchkotoua family originates from occidental Georgia in the Caucasus, a region called Samurzakano on Notes:
the border of Mingrelia and Abkhasia. _________________

In the 9th century the first known ancestor, Bero Tchkotoua, founded a monastery in Natsimeri and built the _________________
family castle in Saberio, the land of the family. They have since been feudal Princes of Saberio. Germain _________________
Tchkotoua was Prince Bishop of Bedia under the reign of Bagrat III (978 – 1014).
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The Tchkotouas were many times appointed Regents of the Province of Samurzakano by the Georgian Kings, _________________
notably in the 14th, 15th and 18th centuries.
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The Russian Empire annexed Georgia in 1801 and thereafter Georgian noble families were included in the
Russian Nobility Register. Georgia gained its independence during the revolution. _________________
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Recent antecedent - Prince Nicolas Tchkotoua (1909 - 1984)
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Prince Nicolas Tchkotoua, Bailiff Grand Cross of Honor and Devotion of the Order of Malta, was Ambassador
of the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta and he set up diplomatic missions in Peru, Chile, Costa Rica _________________
and Spain. _________________
Following the arrival of the Bolsheviks in 1921, Prince Nicolas Tchkotoua, was evacuated as a young child to _________________
Geneva, Switzerland via Constantinople, for his safety. On reaching Geneva, a distant cousin, Princess _________________
Amoulakvari, known to him as Tante Veronika, who had joined the Red Cross, took the young prince under
her wing. _________________
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After finishing his studies in Europe, he moved to the United States, settling finally in Los Angeles where he
met his future wife, Carol Carpenter Marmon, the only daughter of Howard Carpenter Marmon and _________________
Florence Moore Myers. ________________

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