Official Russia is probably pleased at the fact that the Commandant of the Cossack brigade in Teheran is a Russian officer, Colonel Li the newspapers give long biographical accounts of him. Judged by his portraits, he is" fall-bearded man of fine fontaine of Caucasian" mack, He presence and wears the picturesque only thirty-nine years of age and is fu native of Kurskoy government, where hie people are landowners, He received his education in the Al cadets tinguished himself, especially in the last mentioned, where he is still known for his large topographical work, showing the system of roads in the Caucasus.
In 1906 he was sent to Persia to act as military instructor to the local os sacks. Among the Cossacks, who number 3,000 men and constitute the bodyguard of the Shab, the privates sre almost all Persians while all the under-officers and superior officers are Rassians. According to the "St, Petersburg Gazette" Colonel Liakhoff's position was very difficult until the conclusion of the Anglo-Rassian Agreement regarding the Middle Esst, as England and other Powers were not content that a Russian should bold such sri important post; but we are told that "after that Agreement, the position of things entirely changed."
In an interview which the Berlin "Tageblatt™ published on June 28, Mahmud Khan, the Persian Awbas-..|sador, blames General Li hoff for the ie. recent coup d'état, but the "St, Peters-[burg Gazette" asserts that, on the contrary, the Shah was long ago determined to take extreme measures against the Mejliss, but that Colonel Liakhoff, who felt that the daty of
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