Russia and Iran, 1780-1828 - Muriel Atkin

24 Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great theless, Catherine did not allow her advisers to dominate her. Potem- kin would h ...

Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great 25 the eastern Caucasus. While hope of agricultural and commercial de- velopment was ...

26 Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great was regarded with widespread loathing. By the second half of the eighteenth centu ...

Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great 27 Russian minds about the advisability of acquiring colonies in Asia. The prevailin ...

28 Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great and, "guided by his genius," conquered part of the Caspian coast. There were stil ...

Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great 29 the eighteenth century were covered by two anonymous and subse- quently forgotten ...

30 Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great Christians earnestly desired to be ruled by Russia. When in the 1780s Russia had ...

Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great 31 The patriarchate had been abolished by Peter the Great and replaced be a secular ...

32 Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great any case, the commission had not intended to protect Russian mer- chants by the f ...

Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great 33 Despite Russian optimism, prospects for the rapid improvement of that country's t ...

34 Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great Russia next had the opportunity to recoup its losses on the south- western coast ...

Aqa Mohammad as the legitimate ruler of Gilan and Mazandaran and warned that his actions put him in danger of her "stern punishm ...

Russia's merchant fleet on the Caspian was barely adequate. The ships were too few and too small to sustain more than a light vo ...

cials' ideas about which local rulers would make cooperative vassals and which were enemies. This became important as the seriou ...

a Russian garrison in Georgia as a potential menace, but in the end he decided it was more prudent to try to ingratiate himself ...

perhaps by spurring the tribes of the high Caucasus to attack Russian positions north of the mountains. In all of these protesta ...

younger Zubov to obtain the submission of the east Caucasian khans, overthrow Aqa Mohammad, and enthrone the latter's brother Mo ...

no hope of resisting the Russians when Aqa Mohammad was far away in Khorasan. Therefore, he submitted to the Russians. In additi ...

mountain roads, the swift-flowing streams, the dense forests, and the coastal desert around Baku all put the Russians at a disad ...

also culturally and had a great civilizing mission to perform. In so doing, it would also become rich, as had the West through t ...