Yeprem Khan

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Yeprem Khan
Armenian National Liberation Movement
Persian Constitutional Revolution

Yeprem Khan (

Constitutional Revolution of Iran
.

He is considered a national hero in Iran.

Life

Early life

From left to right: Keri, Yeprem Khan, and Khetcho

Yeprem Khan was born to an

Elisabethpol Governorate of the Russian Empire[1] (located in present-day Azerbaijan
).

In his youth, Yeprem participated in Armenian nationalist groups as well as in partisan activities against the

Russian Cossacks. He was exiled to Siberia by 1892, from where he managed to escape to Tabriz in 1896.[1] While in Tabriz, he began working for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF Dashnaktsutiun), whose activity in Persia was primarily directed against the Ottoman Empire,[1][2] and established its local branches in Tabriz, Urmia and Rasht
.

Revolutionary

Yeprem Khan on his horse

Yeprem was highly instrumental in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, and, by 1907, convinced ARF to actively participate in it. After the Persian national parliament was shelled by the Russian Colonel Vladimir Liakhov, Yeprem Khan united with Sattar Khan and other revolutionary leaders in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran against Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar.

In October 1908, during Tabriz resistance, Yeprem Khan formed a secret Sattar Committee (in honor of

Odessa in Russia (today part of Ukraine
).

Police chief in Iran

On 30 July 1909, the Second National Assembly (Parliament) of Iran, appointed Yeprem Khan as the police chief of Tehran.

Astarabad, Iran, but his forces were defeated by Yeprem.[8] Mohammad Ali Shah then fled to Russia, then in 1920 to Constantinople and later to San Remo, Italy, where he died five years later in April 1925 (he was buried in Karbala, Iraq
).

Yeprem Khan was killed on 19 May 1912 while he was trying to rescue one of his comrades in a battle in

Arshak Gavafian
(Keri) later killed the murderers of Yeprem Khan in revenge.

He is buried in St. Mary Church in downtown Tehran.

Legacy

Yeprem Khan's grave at Holy Mother of God Church, Tehran

Yeprem Khan is today, along with many important figures like

Morgan Shuster, treasurer-general of Persia in that time.[9] There exists a popular Armenian patriotic song dedicated to the memory and deeds of Yeprem Khan. The Iranian sculptor Lilit Teryan has created a sculpture of Khan. The statue is at St Mary's church in Tehran.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Aram Arkun. "Eprem Khan", Encyclopedia Iranica, Online Edition". Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  2. ^ "Aram Arkun. "Dashnak (Armenian Revolutionary Federation)", Encyclopedia Iranica, Online Edition". Archived from the original on 2023-08-15. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-8133-3817-4
    , p. 132
  4. ^ Yeprem Khan. "Memoirs", Ittila'at-i Mahaneh, 2 (July 1948), p. 19-21
  5. ISBN 0-313-30731-8
    , p. 312
  6. ^
    ISBN 0-691-10134-5
    , p. 99
  7. ISBN 1-85043-779-3
    , p. 93
  8. ISBN 90-04-09738-4
    . p. 285-286
  9. ^ Morgan Shuster, The Strangling of Persia. New York 1912.
  10. ^ "لیلیت تریان از پیشتازان مجسمه‌سازی در ایران‌ درگذشت". 2019-03-08. Archived from the original on 2019-07-17. Retrieved 2020-01-07.

Further reading

  • Jalali, Seyyed Sa'id (2008). "Eprem Khan and the Constitutional Failure in Iran: (Some Random Notes)". Iran and the Caucasus. 12 (2): 377–384.
    doi:10.1163/157338408X406128
    .

External links

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