Russia and Iran, 1780-1828 - Muriel Atkin

communications with Georgia made a corridor to the sea necessary. There was an overland route linking Tbilisi and the Caucasian ...

when Gudovich heard rumors that Aqa Mohammad planned to sub- due the eastern Caucasus in 1795, the general belittled the threat ...

IV Russian Policy: Questions and Continuity Catherine died before she could fulfill her plan to conquer the eastern Caucasus and ...

Paul openly disapproved of many of the people and policies his mother had favored. He ordered a halt to the Zubov expedition on ...

ration dynasty as governor and the extension or Georgia s boundaries to include territory it had ruled in earlier times when it ...

eastern Caucasus and increased commerce with that region, Iran and India. He wrote a number of books on those themes, all publis ...

he had just appointed commander-in-chief in the Caucasus, that the realization of Zubov's recommendations was "highly desirable, ...

be. The general had a personal stake in the decision, because he hoped to become the first governor of the territory when it bec ...

Paul never doubted that Russia ought to play an active role in Asia. Like his mother, he valued the Iranian marches for their st ...

his methods of achieving them certainly were. One of his first official acts was to recall the Zubov expedition, not only becaus ...

contact with the Muslims of this region. Six months after his acces- sion, he granted an audience to a representative of Ebrahim ...

ments spared Paul from having to find a way to reconcile that con- flict with the conciliatory diplomacy he favored. Aqa Mohamma ...

takings" and who allowed others, including his mother and boon companions as well as some able people, to run the government.^20 ...

export restrictions. The official reply to Fath 'Ali's letter was accom- panied by a number of gifts, including a jewel-studded ...

His main force was sent to oppose the Afghans in Khorasan. The smaller force sent to the Caucasus managed to besiege Khoi and Y ...

From the truth of ancient chronicles and the records of the Safavi state, I know that Teflis [Tbilisi] is a part of Iran and a d ...

Nor was the annexation part of a Russian plan, with or without French participation, for extensive conquests in Asia that were t ...

Empire, there could no more be a retreat from the beliefs that jus- tified annexation than there could be from the annexation it ...

tion view. Not only did he conceal Valerian Zubov's memorandum from Vorontsov and Kochubei, he also gave Knorring complete con- ...

No acceptable concessions were made, and the Indian campaign be- came a dead issue.^33 In the year following Alexander's decisio ...