Since Stepanian's exile and Chekhov's assignment to the island were simultaneous, one can be assured Chekhov's photographer was no other person but Stepan Stepanian. Anyhow a combination of medicine, writing, art and photography have created a collection which is preserved as a valuable heritage at the Armitazh Museum. Stepan Stepanian who arrived in Tabriz after escaping from Sakhalin discharged his obligation to the history by joining the constitutional movement as a photographer and by rendering the faces of Satar Khan, Baqer Khan and Yeprem Khan, the historical devotees to that movement. During history many artists have created artistic works in the court of kings and rulers in painting, sculpturing, writing, architecture and other arts, but that which is recorded in history is the fruit of their art. People are always living in special times and circumstances and their behavior is a joint fruit of instinctive and environmental abilities and impressions.
Artistic work is a sort of exertion.
To analyze and define these exertions, we concentrate on our goals and give meaning to them. In other words the artistic works in each generation differ from that generated by future generations. Each work of art finds its significance in its own era and it never dies, because the meaning of the artistic work in the next generation is a mixture of former opinions and definitions. Abdullah Mirza Qajar lived in one period of history which left him perhaps no other alternative. In the nineteenth century the government was trying to copy the Western political institutions and was trying to hire artists for the court.