Abbas Ali, Savadkouhi Dadash Beyg

His son, Reza, was born in the village of Alasht in Savadkuh County, Māzandarān Province, in 1878. It is believed that Reza Shah Pahlavi's grandmother was a Georgian (from Māzandarān Province).

His father Major 'Abbas 'Ali Khan (Dadash Beg) was born c. 1815, became Comissioned at the 7th Savadkuh Regiment and served in the Anglo-Persian War in 1856. He married five (or seven) wives, including (fifth) in 1877 Nush Afarin Khanum (c. 1836 - Teheran, 1884) (married secondly, c. 1879), sister of 'Abdu'l Qasim Khan, of a leading family from Nakhijavan, in Erivan. He died suddenly at Alasht on 26 November 1878, having had issue 32 children, of whom eight sons and four daughters survived infancy[citation needed].

When Reza was sixteen years old, he joined the Persian Cossack Brigade, in which, years later, he would rise to the rank of Brigadier. He also served in the Iranian Army, where he gained the rank of gunnery sergeant under Qajar Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma's command. He rose through the ranks, eventually holding a commission as a Brigadier General in the Persian Cossack Brigade. He was the last and only Iranian commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade. He was also one of the last individuals to become an officer of the Neshan-e Aqdas prior to the collapse of the Qajar dynasty in 1925.