ABSTRACT
Tatishchev during August 1604 a certain Dzhezdambek appears as the principal representative of the Kakhian prince. Brosset identifies Dzhezdambek as Prince Aram: he would be the natural Kakhian choice with his earlier experience of the Posolski Prikaz and his knowledge of Russian language and mentality. But in the negotiations between Prince Yuri and Tatishchev at Buyutan in January 1605, the names of Prince Yuri's councillors include both 'Dzhezdambek' and 'Prince Aram'. There is an ambiguity here. However, in his account of the negotiations, Brosset persists in his identification; and, on balance, his view is acceptable. 'Dzhezdam-bek' is a territorial title - 'lord of Dzhezdam'. It derives from the name of the river Jegami, an affluent of the Kura, in Somkheti: cf. Toumanoff (SCCH, p. 485, n. 201) for discussion of the topography of this region. Prince Aram may well have come of a family of Armeno-Kartlian origin which had emigrated from the harried marchland of Somkheti and taken service with the Kakhian kings. (For the movement of population from Somkheti into Kakheti during the first half of the sixteenth century, see Introduction, p. 57.)
Cd) The Adamishvilis and others: Brosset, in his summary of Zvenigorodski's embassy (ibid. col. 319) describes Yese Adamishvili ('Adam's son Yessey') as related through his mother to Prince Giorgi. The Adamishvilis were, it appears, a cadet branch of the Andronikashvilis.
