Illustrations from a book made by the order of the French King: “Relation d’un voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du Roy”, translated: “A voyage into the Levant made by order of the King”. Some of these illustrations show Armenian cities and individuals within the Ottoman, Persian and Russian empires.
Prince Valerian Madatov
Prince Valerian Grigoryevich Madatov (1782 – September 4, 1829) was a Russian prince of Armenian ancestry and a lieutenant-general of the Russian Empire. Madatov was born Rostom Madatyan in 1782 in Avetaranots, a village of the historical Varanda county of Nagorno-Karabakh, in a minor Armenian noble family as a melik (prince). At the age of 15 he left Karabakh for St....
