ناصر الدين القاجاري
After the Akhal-Teke expedition and the capture of Geok Tepe by general Mikhail Skobelev, the Qajar ruler Naser al-Din Shah Qajar sent foreign secretary Mirza Saeed Khan Ansari to meet Ivan Zinoviev to prepare for the signing of a treaty that would regulate relations between Russia and Iran in Central Asia.