In 1073 , it was given in apanage to the nobleman Niania Kuabulisdze ; his descendants kept it in the following centuries , before it passed to other major feudal families such as the Toreli , the Tmogveli , the Shalikashvili or the Jaqeli . In 1088 , the castle collapsed in an earthquake . The medieval Georgian writer Sargis Tmogveli was from Tmogvi . The Ottoman Empire gained control of the fortress in 1578 . In 1829 , the Treaty of Adrianople transferred the fortress , among with the surrounding region , to the Russian Empire
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1088 Tmogvi earthquake
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