Nasrollah Minbashian

Nasrollah Minbashian (Persian: نصرالله مین‌باشیان) was born in 1885, and received musical education from his father Gholam Reza Minbashian in Dar ul-Funun, as well as from the French music teacher Alfred Jean Baptiste Lemaire.

[1] In 1898, he was 13 years old when his father took him to Saint Petersburg and enrolled him in the conservatory, while Gholam Reza himself followed lessons by Rimsky-Korsakov.

[2] When he left Russia in 1891, Gholam Reza arranged for his son to stay with his teacher at the conservatory, so that Nasrollah could continue his education privately as well.

He stayed a few years in Shiraz, but then returned to Russia in 1912 where he became the piano teacher of Princess Irina Alexandrovna Romanova.

He has also written the novel A Hundred Sweet Promises based on a true story of the life of Nasrollah Minbashian and his travel to Russia.