House of Vissarionovich (World of Sultans)

The House of Vissarionovich (Russian: Дом Виссарионович) is a Russian Imperial dynasty, of ethnic Georgian origin. This royal family was found in 1922, upon the overthrow of the Romanovs, and the coronation of Joseph Vissarionovich as Tsar Joseph I, an ethnic Georgian of low-class background.

Along with the House of Bagrationi, it is one of Russia's royal houses of ethnic Georgian origin and one of Russia's most important dynasties, as Tsar Joseph I is credited for strengthening the defenses of the Kiev-based Russian Empire, thus, saving the Russian Empire from a Soviet Russian invasion.

After Joseph I's overthrow, the House of Vissarionovich retained prominence, with his son, Prince Vasily Vissarionovich ruling as the Governor-General of Georgia.

Although most of its earliest members only married with ethnic Georgians, soon princes began to marry Russian women, losing their fluency with Georgian, and following the Russian Orthodox Church instead of the Georgian Orthodox Church.