YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY
1826-1828
During the 2nd Russian-Persian war of 1826-1828, in October 1827, General Paskevich captured the Erivan fortress. On February 10, 1828 an agreement was signed in the Iranian village of Turkmenchay, according to which Persia ceded the Erivan and Nakhichevan khanates to Russia Empire.
Erivan became the administrative center of the Armenian Province.
Persia also pledged to pay 20 million rubles in silver indemnity. For this, by the personal Imperial decree, General of Infantry Ivan Paskevich was elevated, with his descendants, to the dignity of the Count of the Russian Empire, named Count Paskevich-Erivansky, and received from the contribution a million rubles in bank notes.
Infantry General I. Paskevich and Prince Abbas-Mirza at the signing of a peace treaty in Turkmanchay.
Portrait of Ivan Fedorovich Paskevich by George Dawe. Military gallery of the Winter Palace.
Russian-Persian war. 1826-1828
Russian-Persian war. 1826-1828
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1921
The National Gallery of Armenia was founded in 1921 by the decision of the Government of Soviet Armenia, as one of the five departments of the State Museum - the Art Department. Martiros Saryan was appointed the director of the museum. As the first state museum of Armenia, it was officially opened to visitors on August 14, 1921.
