Basil Nikitin
In 1915 , he was promoted to consul and based in Urmia . It was here that he arranged a meeting with Shimun XIX Benyamin , the Assyrian Patriarch who had agreed for Assyrian troops to join the Imperial Russian Army . Nikitin promised that after the First World War the Assyrians would be offered national community land in Russia . However , the matter was not pursued as the 1917 Revolution prevented further meaningful discussions . 
<triplet> 1917 Revolution <subj> 1917 <obj> point in time