page_title: Prince Alexander of Imereti (1674–1711)
section_title: Release and death
hierarchical_section_title: Prince Alexander of Imereti (1674–1711) / Release and death
caption_attribution_description: English: The commemorative plaque at the house in Stockholm (Räntmästarhuset på Slussplan 7, 59°19'19.2"N 18°04'24.2"E) where Prince Alexander of Imereti, a Georgian royal in the Russian service, lived in confinement from 1701 to 1711.
context_page_description: Prince Alexander, also known as Tsarevich Aleksandr Archilovich Imeretinsky was a Georgian royal prince of the Kingdom of Imereti. He lived as an émigré in the Tsardom of Russia and subsequently served as first General of the Artillery, the second highest military rank under Tsar Peter the Great. During the Great Northern War, Alexander was taken prisoner at Narva in 1700 and spent ten years in Swedish captivity. He died on his way back to Russia.
context_section_description: During the plague outbreak, Alexander was evacuated to Örebro in October 1710. In connection with the 1710 prisoner exchange, Alexander was finally released and allowed to return home. In December 1710, he set off on a journey, through Gävle and Umeå, around the Gulf of Bothnia. By that time, the prince's health had severely deteriorated, but he turned down all suggestions that he rest. He died on 3 February 1711 in Piteå, of kidney stones or kidney failure. His remains were transported to Villnäs (Askainen) and reburied to the Donskoy Monastery near Moscow in March 1712. The bilingual Georgian-Swedish memorial plaque currently displayed on the Treasurer's House in Stockholm erroneously indicates that he lived there the entire time he was in Sweden from 1701 to 1710. Further, the plaque also mistakenly states that he was exchanged for the Swedish count Carl Piper. 
  According to Voltaire, Charles XII had himself commented on the Georgian prince's vicissitudes: "It is, said he, as if I were one day to be a prisoner among the Crimean Tatars", the words that would prove prophetic—an allusion to Charles's enforced residence in the Ottoman territory after his defeat at the Battle of Poltava in 1709. 
  Prince Alexander is a purported translator of The Testament of Basil the Macedonian into Georgian.
caption: A plaque in Stockholm commemorating Prince Alexander.
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