Tiflis was his next destination. He studied Russian language and history in that city. He was the interpreter of Iranian embassy in the welcome ceremony of Nasseradin Shah from Jolfa to Tabriz. He was employed in this embassy in the same year. Influenced by Mirza Fath Ali Akhunzadeh, he wrote a dissertation on the change of Persian script. Mirza Malkam Khan, being himself a theoretician of this change, entitled him Danesh.
