Mir-Fatah-Agha commonly known as Mushthaid (died 24 October 1892) was a high-ranking Twelver Shi'a Muslim

Muslim

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 cleric (specifically, he was a mujtahid) from Tabriz

Tabriz

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 (Iranian Azarbaijan, Persian Empire), whom the Russia

Russian Empire

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n government credited with keeping the population of Iranian Azerbaijan loyal to the brief Russian occupation of the territory during the second Russian-Persian war

Russo-Persian Wars

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 of 1827 to 1828. When Mir-Fatah asked to accompany Russian forces on their withdrawal, the Russian authorities sought to use his influence and, in June 1828, he was appointed to a newly formed Caucasus Committee that was to gather information on the Muslim inhabitants of the Caucasus

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 and make recommendations on how to incorporate them into the Russian polity. As an advisor to the Russian governor general Ivan Paskevich

Ivan Paskevich

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, he lived in Tiflis, Georgia

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 (then part of the Russian Empire

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) where he established a famous garden on the left bank of the Kura River

Kura River

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 (Mtkvari). Paskevich’s departure to Warsaw

Warsaw

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and bad relations with subsequent governor generals forced him to return to Tabriz in 1845.