Tehran

On the map

Coordinates: 35.6889, 51.3897 · On the full map →

Role in the family history

Capital of Persia: Russia sent a special envoy to Ahmad Shah’s coronation in 1914; the Golestan Palace holds the treasury of gifts and the album with the photograph of the Shah “In St Petersburg, 1318” — places to look for traces of the saddle.

Events

1. July 1914

   Ahmad Shah’s coronation

   ◆ documentedTehran

Institutions

• the Golestan PalaceMuseum

In the chronicle

1. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • …Peterhof in 1905, by which time Fedot Alekseyevich had left the Convoy; and for Ahmad Shah’s coronation in Tehran in 1914 Russia sent a special envoy…

2. 4. Service and Crosses

   • …, by which time Fedot Alekseyevich had left the Convoy. For Ahmad Shah’s coronation in Tehran in 1914 Russia sent a special envoy; a gift would then have gone to Tehran, with no…

3. 5. At Court

   • …Shah never came to Russia as shah, and for Ahmad Shah’s coronation in Tehran in 1914 Russia sent a special envoy: a gift would then have gone to Tehran, with no…

4. 6. The Workshop

   • …, by which time Fedot Alekseyevich had left the Convoy. For Ahmad Shah’s coronation in Tehran in 1914 Russia sent a special envoy, and no review in St Petersburg could have been part of it…

5. 7. The Upheaval

   • …left the Convoy. And for Ahmad Shah’s coronation in Tehran in 1914 Russia sent a special envoy: a gift would then have gone to Tehran, with no…

6. 10. Pushkin House

   • …at Peterhof in 1905, when Fedot Alekseyevich had already left the Convoy; and for Ahmad Shah’s coronation in Tehran in 1914 Russia sent a special envoy…

7. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …in August 1905, by which time Fedot Alekseyevich had left the Convoy; and for Ahmad Shah’s coronation in Tehran in 1914 Russia sent a special envoy, so there could be no review in St Petersburg…

8. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

   • …had left the Convoy, and August was not the time of the farewell review. For Ahmad Shah’s coronation in Tehran in 1914, Russia sent a special envoy — a gift would then have travelled to Tehran rather than been shown at…

9. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • Iran. The Golestan Palace in Tehran — the treasury of gifts, the former saddle store and the photographic archive; album no. 1421 of the palace…
   • …Fedot Alekseyevich had left the Convoy; for Ahmad Shah’s coronation in 1914 Russia sent a special envoy to Tehran.
   • Collections abroad. The Golestan Palace and the Military Museum of the Saadabad complex in Tehran — we ask whether the imperial gifts of 1900–1913 include Russian Cossack saddles; the National Museum of…

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