Armenia is located in southern Transcaucasia, the region southwest of Russia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
After the War he was appointed Military Governor at Batoum in Transcaucasia.
Along with a number of other villages in northwestern Azerbaijan, Slavyanka was settled in 1844 by the Doukhobors, members of a Pacifist dissenter Christian group resettled to Transcaucasia by Nicholas I from the Molochna River settlements in today's Zaporizhia Oblast of the Ukraine.