Ivan Paskevich §

Russian field marshal and commander of the Caucasus campaign that broke Qajar control over Eastern Armenia. Paskevich captured Erivan in October 1827, after which Nicholas I granted him the title Count of Erivan, and he was the principal Russian military figure associated with the 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay. His campaign turned the Erivan and Nakhichevan khanates into imperial possessions and opened the way for officially sponsored Armenian resettlement from Persia. Armenian historical memory often treats the conquest as liberation from Muslim khanate rule; Azerbaijani and Iranian perspectives more often read it as imperial partition and demographic engineering. Both dimensions matter: Paskevich did not create Armenian national life, but he changed the state framework in which Eastern Armenian political identity would later consolidate.