Russia and Iran, 1780-1828 - Muriel Atkin

treaty was a source of dispute. Eventually, Rtishchev resolved the matter by leaving the Talesh border to be decided later by a ...

IX for the Eastern Caucasus There were two obvious results of the military confrontation of Rus- sians, east Caucasians, and Ira ...

Yet the dichotomy was not complete. Where Russia ruled directly, it employed local notables and kept some traditional practices. ...

dants were supposed to enforce the law, but there was considerable uncertainty about what the law was. In theory, the commandant ...

in cash for payments in kind (especially the share of the flocks). There was not nearly enough Russian money in circulation to a ...

wards, including honorific appointments as military officers. The peasantry certainly did not gain as a result of Russian policy ...

after Yerevan was made part of the Russian Empire, that province became the focus of large-scale Armenian immigration. With thes ...

The economy of the eastern Caucasus performed unevenly in the first generation of Russian rule. Of course, there were obvious ne ...

The road across the high mountains, though improved, long remained inadequate for the transportation of large quantities of good ...

the border, but the two sides could not agree on a number of small details, let alone the transfer of a larger area from Russian ...

on all points and returned to Tbilisi to take command of Russia's Caucasian provinces. In 1825, he grew impatient with the unsuc ...

article but showed what concerns lay behind this emphasis on the de- fensive nature of the pact: Britain as well as Iran and Rus ...

Russian positions in Qarabagh, Elizavetpol', and elsewhere, Britain decided that this was exactly the kind of irredentist war it ...

court chronicles downplayed the prince's role in starting the second war, not a surprising decision since the war ended so badly ...

ful of the heavy taxes. Plundering during battle still interfered with the Iranians' ability to press home an early advantage an ...

costs incurred in fighting the war and the losses suffered by Russian subjects. It would also have the effect of binding Iran to ...

the disasters of the second war with Russia. Trends that would even- tually produce change were set in motion, but the results w ...

prepared to enforce his claim to the throne and had to face the rival claim of his uncle, Hosein 'Ali, who had earlier tried to ...

X Conclusions In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, several different forces disrupted the status quo in Iran a ...

Russian honor and combat Iranian barbarism. Russia's attitude stif- fened precisely because its early efforts were poorly execut ...