Abstract
Fazel-Khan Garrusi, alias Ravi (Story-Teller) and Sayda (Madly in Love), was a Persian poet, prose-writer and scientist of the Qajar period. Despite his considerable role in the development of the Persian literature, and the new Persian prose in particular, he enjoyed very little interest by both Persian and European researchers. first author, who introduced Fazel-Khan to the reader, was Reza-Qoli-Khan Hedayat.1 data collected in his Anthology became a source for all the subsequent authors: Ebrahim Safayi,2 Yahya Aryanpur,3 Mehdi Bamdad,4 and Sa'id Nafisi.5 Western European Orientalists have been even less inquisitive about Fazel-Khan's personality and literary writings. Edward Brown6 and Jan Rypka7 have made only a slight mention of his Anthology Anjoman-e xJqJn, The Gathering of Rulers. As to the Soviet scholars,8 they focused mainly on the poet's encounter with Pushkin in the Caucasus and his part in the Mission of Redemption.9 data available on the initial, Iranian period of the poet's life are more or less corroborative. He was born in the village Gar-
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