Mkhargrdzeli-Arghutashvili (), later known as Argutinsky-Dolgorukov () was an Armeno-Georgian noble family whose double surname indicates their descent from Arghut (died 1506) and the family s purported origin from the medieval house of Mkhargrdzeli (Zachariads). "Dolgorukov" is a direct Russian translation of "Mkhargdzeli", literally meaning in Georgian "a long-arm".

Tombstone of a member of the Argutinsky-Dolgorukov family at the courtyard of Sanahin monastery.

In contrast to the commonly accepted view, the Russian historian Pyotr Dolgorukov (1816-1868) advanced a hypothesis of the family s Rurikid origin and attempted to trace the common ancestry of Argutinsky-Dolgorukov and the Rurikid house of Dolgorukov to the 12th-century prince Yuri Dolgoruki.^[3]

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