Russia and Iran, 1780-1828 - Muriel Atkin

conquer Yerevan at the first sign that the shah planned to attack it, even if there were no indication that Georgia would be the ...

plies to Georgia "by the difficult route across the Caucasus Moun- tains."^41 Yerevan and Ganjeh had to have Russian garrisons i ...

V Russia's Conquest of the Eastern Caucasus Russian historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have generally characte ...

would-be khans also tried to use one or both of the competing em- pires in order to supplant the incumbent. Some khans had very ...

Russia was unable to profit from the favorable situation in Iranian Armenia because St. Petersburg put a higher priority on inte ...

make. In light of a generation of cyclical engagement and disengage- ment by Russia, many Caucasians must have expected Alexande ...

ishment for their uncooperativeness, but he never made good his threat. Even in the dispute involving Kars and Nakhjavan, Russia ...

age in battle as he rose through the ranks in the next few years and became a lieutenant-general at the precocious age of twenty ...

with unprecedented powers. In appointing him, Alexander gave him the previously separate offices of commander-in-chief in Georgi ...

[He] was a man of indomitable courage and extreme energy.... He was also en- dowed with administrative ability of a high order, ...

'Ali Shah to make peace on Russia's terms by attacking Gilan. When Tsitsianov gave a subordinate his orders for the expedition, ...

shelter with her brother (the khan of Yerevan), wrote to Tsitsianov to assuage the general's wrath and explain her husband's pre ...

the threats to property and physical satety characteristic or Asian rule. Therefore, for the next thirty years (by which time Ru ...

successful attempt in 1803 to stop Lesghi raids from the mountains northeast of Georgia and then turned his attention to the mor ...

battles had been fought remained unresolved. Georgia and the tribes of the high Caucasus were only temporarily pacified. In turn ...

also tried to persuade St. Petersburg that his planned expeditions were worth the effort because they were assured easy victory ...

called. The other critical report was submitted to Alexander in 1806 by Collegiate Assessor Lofitsskii, secretary of the Executi ...

The ferocity of Tsitsianov's demeanor in dealing with various khans reflected not only his desire to humble them into submission ...

proximity but also because of its decades of hostility toward Georgia. The fact that Tsitsianov achieved results that pleased hi ...

of inhabitants killed at 1,500; other Russian authors put the figure at 1,750; Ganjevi and Iranian sources referred to more than ...