Erekle II of Georgia

King of Kakheti from 1744 and king of the unified Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti from 1762 to 1798, he was the last great independent Georgian monarch. He won the famous Battle of Krtsanisi against the Persians but was overwhelmed at the second battle in 1795 when Tehran sacked Tbilisi. He signed the Treaty of Georgievsk with Russia in 1783.