![]() ![]() When Moḥammad Shah came to the throne in 1250/1834, Garmrūdī was summoned to Tehran and appointed chief clerk of the army ( laškar-nevīs). ![]() He was present, too, at the negotiations in Dehḵᵛāraqān and Torkmaṇčāy that formalized the Iranian defeat. It was as a member of ʿAbbās Mīrzā’s staff that he was sent to negotiate with the Russian general Paskievich after the capture of Tabrīz at the end of the second Russo-Persian War. After a time he was transferred to Tabrīz, where he enjoyed the patronage first of Mīrzā Masʿūd Anṣārī and then of ʿAbbās Mīrzā, the crown prince. Against his father’s wishes, he entered government service early in his youth as an accountant in Mīāna. ![]() He was born into a clerical family in Kasalān, a village in the Garmrūd area near Tabrīz. 1200-64/1786-1848), a scribe and minor author of the mid-Qajar period. ![]()
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