Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev

After the death of Nader Shah (1747) Agasar and his sons left Persia and moved to Astrakhan before settling in Moscow.

[4] His great wealth allowed him to buy from the Stroganov family some important steel works and 115 000 hectares of land in the Northern Urals, where he also set up several new mills.

[4] When Catherine the Great asked Lazarev to advise her on the oriental policies in 1774, he drew up a plan of reviving the state of Armenia, with Prince Potemkin as its monarch.

[4] After the Treaty of Jassy he came up with a more feasible plan of resettling Armenians from the Ottoman Empire to the lands conquered by Russia in the Black Sea region (so that they could practise their faith openly).

[4] Lazarev bought the royal manor of Ropsha near the Russian capital and commissioned Georg von Veldten to build a new palace there.