Prince Alexander of Georgia
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Alexander was a Georgian royal prince of the Bagrationi dynasty, who headed several insurrections against the Russian rule in Georgia. He was known as Eskandar Mīrzā in Persia, tsarevich Aleksandr Ira
Alexander, Prince of Georgia
The battle on the Iori in 1800
Umma Khan of Avary hosting Prince Alexander as imagined by the artist Khalil-Bek Musayasul (1897–1949).
Tabriz in the 1840s
Samson Makintsev
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Samson Yakovlevich Makintsev, more commonly known as Samson Khan or Sam Khan;, was a general of Russian origin in the service of Qajar Iran. Originally a sergeant of the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regime
Prince Alexander of Georgia
…Mamuka Orbeliani and Ivan Ratiev, respectively. Alexander's daughter, Princess Elizabeth (13 July 1821 – 17 September 1836), was the second wife of Samson-Khan (Samson Yakovlevich Makintsev; 1770–1853), a Russian defector and a high-ranking commander in the Qajar army. Samson's son of this marriage, Jibrail-Khan, subsequently served as an aide-de-camp…
Saint John Church of Sohrol