I thought it was interesting that a portrait of Tsar Alexander II overlooks the meeting of Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday, Jan 17, 2025 in Moscow.
Many pictures were taken by the press, but only a few news outlets picked up this one :
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Pretty sure Putin said that was his favorite Tsar
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Oh is that right ? It sounds true.
Well what's interesting is the original basis of Persian-Russian military cooperation.
In the 1870s, this Shah from the Qajar Dynasty requested Tsar Alexander II to send him military advisers. Nassir ad Din Shah had seen the Russian Cossack Brigade and was greatly impressed.
What happened was that Cossack officers were sent who helped form the Persian Cossack Brigade. Eventually out of this emerged the Persian Cossack colonel, Reza Khan, who staged a coup d'etat in February 1921. The weak Qajar Shah of the time was ejected.
Reza Khan then seized full power and started his dynasty in 1925. The Cossack officer, rough and fairly unlettered, selected the cultured-sounding name of the Middle Persian language, Pahlavi. Thus this orphan rose to become Reza Shah Pahlavi.
[The Shah most people living today have heard about was his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.]
To think that all this started from Tsar Alexander II's agreement to provide Russian military advisers to train the Persian Empire's army.
Here we have today the political descendants of the two leaders concluding a far-reaching military agreement.
Thus the presence of a portrait of Tsar Alexander II [ a good one by the way ] was a propos.