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Ivan Paskevich:

On the outbreak of Russo-Persian War (1826–28) in 1826 he was appointed second in command, and, in the spring of the following year he  replaced Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov as |chief command]]. Under his leadership, Echmiadzin  and  the  Nakhichevan  Khanate  were  seized  from the Persians. After the Persians unsuccessfully tried to recapture Echmiadzin, the tsar granted Paskevich the title of "Erivanskii" (  Count of Yerevan ),  a million rubles and a diamond -mounted sword for his services.

History of Azerbaijan:

Though oil was discovered and exported from the area centuries prior, the Azeri oil rush of the 1870s led to a period of unprecedented prosperity and growth in the years leading to World War I but also created huge disparities in wealth between the largely European capitalists and the local Muslim work force. The rush was spurred by Armenian oil magnate Mirzoev and his drilling practices, which were then replaced by the auction of oil lands, most of which were purchased by Russians and Armenians, followed by Europeans, most notably Robert Nobel of Branobel.

Yermolov:

As Professor Moshe Gammer [1 ] writes:"Far from subduing the population, as his admirers up to the present have asserted, his activities rather intensified hatred to Russia, stiffened resistance to it and helped to enhance the role of Islam, in the form of the spread of the Naqshbandi tariqa (Sufi brotherhood) which would leave now resistance in the eastern part of the Caucasus and for some periods of time in some of its western parts too."