Early Life
Yevfimy Putyatin was amongst the crew that sailed around the world with Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (1822–1825). and participated in the Caucasian War (1838–1839). In 1842 he led an armed diplomatic mission to Iran, which secured diplomatic relations, trade relations and steamer communication between the two countries.
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