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The Origin and Early Development of the Persian Cossack Brigade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

F. Kazemzadeh
F. Kazemzadeh*
Affiliation:
Russian Research Center, Harvard University
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Though The Persian Cossack Brigade, which played such a fateful role during the revolution of 1905-1911, has attracted attention, relatively little is known of its origins and early development.

George W. Curzon devoted to the Brigade only a few of the 693 pages which make up the first volume of his monumental work on nineteenth-century Iran. Edward G. Browne, while discussing at length the role of the Brigade in the events of 1905-1909, erroneously fixed the date of its formation in 1882 and named Colonel Kozakofski (sic) as its first commander. Russian historians have done no better.

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Research Article
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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , October 1956 , pp. 351 - 363
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1956

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References

1 George W. Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question (London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1892), pp. 594-98.

2 Edward G. Browne, The Persian Revolution of 1905-190Q (Cambridge University Press, 1910), p. 26, n. 1.

3 M. S. Ivanov, Ocherk istorii Irana, Akademija Nauk SSSR, Institut Vostokovedenija (Moscow, Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo politicheskoj literatury, 1952), p. 188.

4 A. Domantovich, “Vospominanija o prebyvanii pervoj russkoj voennoj missii v Persii,” Russkaia starina, February and March, 1908. Kosagovskij (his first name is nowhere given), “Ocherk razvitija persidskoj kazach'ej brigady,” Novyj Vostok, No. 4 (Moscow, 1923); pp. 390-402 (hereafter cited as “Ocherk“). Kosagovskij, “Persija v Kontse XIX veka,” Novyj Vostok, No. 3 (Moscow, 1923); pp. 446-69 (hereafter cited as “Persija“).

5 Domantovich, op. cit., February 1908, pp. 332-33.

6 Ibid., p. 332.

7 Ibid., pp. 332-33.

8 Ibid., p. 338.

9 Ten years later he was Chief of the Asiatic Department of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cf. Krasnyj Arkhiv, v.1/56, 1933; p. 35.

10 Domantovich, op. tit., March 1908, pp. 578-79.

11 Ibid., pp. 580-82.

12 Kosagovskij, Ocherk, p. 391.

13 Ibid., p. 392.

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid., pp. 392, 393.

16 Ibid.

17 Ibid., p. 393.

18 Ibid., p. 394.

19 Ibid.

20 Ibid.

21 Kosagovskij, Persija, p. 448.

22 Ibid.

23 Ibid.

24 Kosagovskij, Ocherk, p. 397.

25 Ibid., pp. 398-99.

26 Kosagovskij, Persija, pp. 457-58. For details of the events of May 1, 1896, see E. G. Browne, The Persian Revolution of 1905-1909 (Cambridge University Press, 1910).

27 Kosagovskij, Persija, p. 458.

28 Ibid.

29 Ibid., p. 459.

30 Ibid., pp. 459-60.

31 Kosagovskij, Ocherk, p. 448.