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Count
Valerian Aleksandrovich Zubov
Zubov in 1796
Born
(1771-11-28)28 November 1771 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died
21 June 1804(1804-06-21) (aged 32)
Buried
Coastal Monastery of Saint Sergius, Russian Empire
Allegiance
Russian Empire
Service/branch
Imperial Russian Army
Rank
Major general (c. 1792), General-in-chief (c. 1796), General of the Infantry (c. 1800)
Battles/wars
Persian Expedition of 1796
Capture of Derbent
Relations
House of Zubov
Count Valerian Zubov of Derbent
Count Valerian Aleksandrovich Zubov (Russian: Валериа́н Алекса́ндрович Зу́бов; 1771–1804) was a Russian general who led the Persian Expedition of 1796. His siblings included Platon Zubov and Olga Zherebtsova.
As a young man Zubov had flattering prospects of a brilliant military career due to his brother Platon's ascendancy at Catherine II's court. He was reputed by contemporaries as "the handsomest man in Russia". The legend has it that the aged Empress flirted with him, secretly from his brother.
During her reign he was much lionized as a military hero of incredible valor. He was appointed General-Major and sent to assist Suvorov in quelling the Kościuszko Uprising in Poland, where he was said to treat both the Polish noblemen and their wives brazenly and "in the most lowly manner". During this stay in Poland, he married Teodor Lubomirski's granddaughter and lost his left leg in the autumn of 1794 while crossing the Western Bug, as he was wounded by a cannonball.
Several months before Catherine's death, 24-year-old Zubov was invited to take charge of the army heading for Persia. The expedition, launched in 1796, initially under the motto of complying to the promise Russia had made 23 years earlier to Georgia to protect it against any Persian attempts to bring the country under its hegemony again, was now just one of another wars for regional hegemony that was going on for a long time between Turkey, Persia, and Imperial Russia.
Zubov started the expedition in a much promising manner, seizing Derbent in Dagestan in April 1796, and Baku by July of the same year.[1] Catherine waxed jubilant at his rapid progress,[1] which in two months repeated some of the gains of Peter the Great during the Russo-Persian War (1722-1723). By November, they were stationed at the confluence of the Araks and Kura Rivers, poised to attack mainland Iran. It was in that month that the Empress of Russia died and her son and successor Paul I, who detested the Zubovs and had other plans for the army, ordered the troops to retreat back to Russia. Zubov's return from his luckless expedition occasioned an ode by Derzhavin, meditating on the fleeting nature of fortune and success.
Count Valerian Aleksandrovich Zubov (Russian: Валериа́н Алекса́ндрович Зу́бов; 1771–1804) was a Russian general who led the Persian Expedition of 1796...
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reign. The prince was a member of the Zubov Russian noble family and had several siblings, including Nikolay, Valerian, and Olga Zherebtsova. It was through...
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war on Iran, upon the proposal of Gudovich, and sent an army under ValerianZubov to the Qajar possessions on April of that year, but the new Tsar Paul...
war on Persia, upon the proposal of Gudovich, and sent an army under ValerianZubov to the Qajar possessions on April of that year, but the new Tsar Paul...
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Expedition of 1796, Derbent was stormed by Russian forces under General ValerianZubov, but the Russians were forced to retreat due to internal political issues...
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much justification and then evacuated. 3) In 1796 it was captured by ValerianZubov after 2-month siege. The khan, Shaykh Ali was made prisoner, made a...
Derbent and Baku during the expedition of 1796 under the command of count ValerianZubov, Agha Mohammad Khan successfully expanded Iranian influence into the...
returning to St. Petersburg, he was dispatched to serve under Count ValerianZubov in an ill-fated expedition against Persia, which Emperor Paul I recalled...
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Mazandarani as kalantar of Tehran and then left with an army to fight ValerianZubov. Agha Mohammad Khan appointed him after Mirza Shafi accompanied him...
of adjutant-general. In 1801 he served as colonel in the regiment of ValerianZubov. Between 1805 and 1807 he took part in thirteen battles. Between 1808...
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