Russia and Iran, 1780-1828 - Muriel Atkin

1. Stanislavskaia, p. 248; a longer statement of the Soviet view can be found in the es-
   says "Azerbaidzhan" and "Formyi i metody natsional'no-kolonial'noi politiki tsarizma,"
   B. A. Rybakov et al., eds., Istoriia SSSR (12 vols., Moscow, 1966-71), III, 669, IV, 380; the
   pro-expansionist view also permeates the works of P. A. Zubov, Dubrovin, and Beliavskii
   and Potto.


2. Knorring to Mohammad, April 18, 1802, and Kovalenskii's observations on Geor-
   gia, August 1800, and plea of the Qazzaqs to Knorring, 1802, and Knorring to Alexander,
   August 15 and 28, 1801, May 25, 1802, Akty, I, 619, 119,593,604,427,475.


3. Major-General Lazarev (commandant of the Russian garrison in Georgia) to Knor-
   ring, July 13, 1801, and December 5, 1802, and Javad to Kovalenskii, n.d. (1802), and Ja-
   vad to Knorring, n.d., and Kalb 'Ali to the Armenian archbishop Hovannes, n.d., Akty, I,
   618, 622, 607, 611-12, II, 634. Not surprisingly, many Georgians also expected Alexander
   to order a retreat from the Caucasus. S. A. Tuchkov, Zapiski Sergeia Alekseevicha Tuchkova,
   1766-1808 (St. Petersburg, 1908), p. 190.


4. Beliavskii and Potto, I, 23; M. O. Kosven and Kh. M. Khashaev, eds., Istoriia geo-
   grafiia i etnografiia Dagestana XVIH-XIX vv. (Moscow, 1958), p. 208.


5. For example, there was F. F. Simonovich, who saw action in Tsitsianov's siege of
   Yerevan and went on to become military governor of the west Georgian principalities of
   Imeretia, Mingrelia, and Guria. Kosven and Khashaev, p. 156; see also pp. 172 and 228-29.


6. V. A. Potto, Kavkazskaia voina (4 vols., St. Petersburg, 1885-1888), I, 556-57;
   Beliavskii and Potto, II, 472-73; N. R. Rtishchev (commander-in-chief) to Alexander, Janu-
   ary 28, 1813, and Active State Counsellor Malinskii (civilian governor of Georgia) to Ma-
   jor-General Portniagin (commander of Russian troops in Georgia), January 26, l8lB,Akty,
   V, 700, 702-3. Michael Vorontsov, son of the ambassador to London (1801-1806) served
   briefly as a young officer under Tsitsianov's command. Forty years later, he returned as
   viceroy of the Caucasus (1844-1853).


7. Gudovich to N. Saltykov (president of the College of War), December 18, 1796,
   Dubrovin, III, 196; Beliavskii and Potto, II, 1; Gudovich to the commandant and all inhabi-
   tants of the citadel of Yerevan, October 4 and 17, 1808, and Gudovich to Mustafa Khan of
   Shirvan, December 12, 1806, and Gudovich to Foreign Minister Budberg, October 19 and
   December 6, 1806, Akty, III, 237, 239, 297-98, 393.


8. Beliavskii and Potto, I, 306, 309, II, 277, 285; Potto, I, 469-70, 499, 525; Torma-
   sov to Rumiantsev, February 24, 1811, and Paulucci to Rtishchev, March 20, 1812, Akty,
   IV, 755, V. 52.


9. Beliavskii and Potto, I, 44.


10. J. Baddeley, The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus (New York, 1969, facsimile
    reprint of London 1908 edition), pp. 61-62.
    ll.Hedayat, IX, 389.


11. Tuchkov, pp. 197, 208, 210, 215.


12. Tsitsianov to Alexander, February 10, 1803, and Tsitsianov to Kochubei, Febru-
    ary 10, 1803, and Tsitsianov to Ja'far Qoli Khan (of Khoi), June 24, 1804, and Czartoryski
    to Tsitsianov, September 14, 1804, April 16 and 28, 1805, and Tsitsianov to Zavalishin,
    March 29, 1805, and Tsitsianov to Czartoryski, Akty, II, 19-20, 855, 824, 827, 620 , 1027.


13. Kochubei to Tsitsianov, July 8, 1804, and Tsitsianov to Zavalishin, March 29,
    1805, and Tsitsianov to Javad Khan, November 29, 1803, and Tsitsianov to Fath 'Ali Shah,
    March 29, 1805, ibid., II, 51, 825, 826, 588; Beliavskii and Potto, I, 44, 129.


14. Tsitsianov to Javad, December 29, 1803, Akty, II, 591.


15. Tsitsianov to Soltan Begum, July 1, 1804, and Tsitsianov to Alexander, July 14,
    1804, ibid., II, 856-58.

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