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
Saint John Church of Sohrol
Saint John Church of Sohrol
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The Church of Saint John is a 5th- or 6th-century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. It was rebuilt in 1840 by Samson Makintsev in brick on the older
Samson Makintsev
…differently from the other deserters, tried separately, and punished. He died in 1849 and was buried under the altar of an Armenian Catholic church (Saint John Church of Sohrol) in Iranian Azerbaijan that he himself had rebuilt in 1840. By the early 1850s the deserter regiment of which Makintsev had once been part had vanished…
Interior of the church