The Bogatyr battalion (russian: Батальон богатырей; fa, گردان بهادران ) was a battalion made up of deserters from the
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
army formed in
19th-century Iran, primarily during and for a time after the era of the
Russo-Iranian Wars.
See also
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Samson Makintsev
Samson Yakovlevich Makintsev (russian: Самсо́н Я́ковлевич Маки́нцев), more commonly known as Samson Khan or Sam Khan (سامسونخان); (1849 – 1780), was a general of Russian origin in the service of Qajar Iran. ...
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Yevstafii Skryplev
Sources
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Батальон богатырей// Б (Blanc) порох — Бомба. — СПб. ;
.: Тип. т-ва
Ivan Sytin
Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (russian: Ива́н Дми́триевич Сы́тин; 5 February 185123 November 1934) was a Russian publisher. The son of a Soligalich peasant, he built the largest publishing house in pre-revolutionary Russian Empire, ...
, 1911. — С. 412. — (Военная энциклопедия :
18 т./ Под ред. В. Ф. Новицкого
др.; т. 4).
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* Kibovskii, Aleksandr
''BAGADERAN" - RUSSIAN DESERTERS IN THE PERSIAN ARMY, 1802-1839.''(From ''Tseikhgauz, No. 5, 1996.'')
Russo-Persian Wars
Iran–Russia relations
Military history of Qajar Iran
19th-century military history of the Russian Empire
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