Niko I Dadiani

Niko I Dadiani
Late 19th-century portrait of Niko Dadiani
Prince of Mingrelia
Tenure	30 August 1853 – 4 January 1867
Predecessor	David Dadiani
Successor	Principality abolished
Born	(1847-01-04)4 January 1847 Zugdidi
Died	23 January 1903(1903-01-23) (aged 56) Saint Petersburg
Burial	Martvili
Spouse	Countess Maria Alexandrovna Adlerberg
Issue	4
House	Dadiani
Father	David Dadiani
Mother	Ekaterine Chavchavadze
Religion	Georgian Orthodox Church

Nikoloz "Niko" Dadiani (Georgian: ნიკოლოზ "ნიკო" დადიანი), or Nikolay Davidovich Dadian-Mingrelsky (Russian: Николай Давидович Дадиан-Мингрельский; 4 January 1847 – 23 January 1903), was the last Prince of Mingrelia from 1853 to 1867.^[1] Of the House of Dadiani, one of the leading Georgian noble families, he succeeded on the death of his father, David Dadiani, but he never ruled in his own right; during his minority, the government was run by regency presided by his mother, Princess Ekaterina, and in 1857, Mingrelia was placed under a provisional Russian administration. In 1867, Dadiani formally abdicated the throne and Mingrelia was directly incorporated into the Russian Empire. Dadiani mostly lived in Saint Petersburg, being close to the court. He was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, distinguished himself in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), and retired with the rank of major-general.