Portrait of Movses Arghutian-Yerkaynabazuk, 1849

Portrait of Movses Zakharevich Arghutian-Yerkaynabazuk (Argutinsky-Dolgorukov), 1849. Artist: Stepanos Nersisian (1815–1884). Oil on canvas, 49 × 37. National Gallery of Armenia. The portrait shows a man in military uniform with gold epaulettes and aiguillettes, a red collar, a cross-shaped decoration at the neck and a fur cloak over his shoulder.

He was born in 1798 in Tiflis into an Armenian princely family and was a grandson of the Armenian Patriarch Hovsep Arghutian (1743–1801). On the advice of A. P. Yermolov he entered military service. In 1844, as a major general, he was appointed commander of the troops in Southern Dagestan, and in 1847 military governor of Derbent. In the winter of 1853 he led his troops across the Caucasus range into the rear of Shamil.

He died on 20 February 1855 in Tiflis and was buried in the gavit of the Church of the Holy Mother of God at Sanahin Monastery, on his family estate.