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12, 13, 15, 16, 17-18, 19;opposes Aqa
Mohammad, 20; and Zubov expedition,
40, 41; relations with Russia, 43, 64; ac-
quired by Russia, 72, 87; status under
Russian rule, 145, 146, 149, 150, 152;
sides with Iran in Second Russo-Iranian
War, 158. See also Caucasus (Eastern)
Shusha (Qarabagh): vaqf grants, 14;and
Aqa Mohammad's Caucasian campaigns,
20, 55; besieged by Iran (1826), 158
Siberia, 25,27
Silk, 16,33
Skibinevskii, consul, 48, 57
Skilichii, consul, 34, 35
Slaves and slavery, 15, 17, 110
Soimonov, Peter, 52
Solomon (Imeretia king), 102
Soltan Hosein (Safavi shah), 4, 28
Spain, 129
State Council (Russia), 48
Stroganov, Paul, 61
Suvorov, Alexander, 39, 99
Sweden, 100

Tabriz: 49; claimed by khan of Qarabagh,
19; Tsitsianov wants to take, 73, 95; tak-
en by Russia, 158
Tahmasb II (Safavi shah), 5, 8, 93
Tahmasb Qoli (Afshar khan). See Nader
(Afshar shah)
Talesh: 10; eighteenth century status, 11,
16, 18; attacked by Aqa Mohammad, 19;
acquired by Russia, 86; attitude toward
Russia and Iran, 89; and Treaty of Gole-
stan, 144, 153; status under Russian rule,
145, 146, 149, 152; sides with Iran in
Second Russo-Iranian War, 158. See also
Caucasus (Eastern)
Tatars, 27
Tbilisi: 44; sacked by Aqa Mohammad
(1795), 20, 38, 39, 43; Russian garrison
in, 5 7; Armenian migration to, 149; Rus-
sian trade via, 151-52
Tehran, 10,49
Tilsit, Treaty of, 129
Timur, 72
Torkmanchai, Treaty of, 149, 151, 158-59
Tormasov, Alexander: career and attitudes,
71; plan to kill khan of Derbent-Qobbeh,

87, 109; doubts about Russian prospects

in first war with Iran, 122

Tsitsianov, Paul: instructions from Alexan-

der, 49-50, 64, 65; assumes command in

Caucasus, 67; shares views of V. A. Zu-

bov, 70; activities in Caucasus, 71-85,

86-87; eagerness for war with Iran, 96-

98; attempt to conquer Yerevan, 120-21;

death, 129-30; treatment of 'ulama, 150

Tuchkov, Sergei, 73

Tumanovskii, consul: role in affairs of Gilan,

34; relations with Aqa Mohammad, 35,

44, death, 48

Turcomans: Central Asian raiders of Iran, 8;

status in Eastern Caucasus, 11, 12; oppo-

sition to Iran's Caucasian campaign

(1800), 58

'Ulama (Islamic religious leaders), 128, 150

*Urf (common law), 13

Vakhtang (Bagration king), 6

Vaqf grants, 14, 150

Voinovich, Count, 33, 44

Volkonskii, Prince, 77

Volynskii, Artemii, 4, 28

Vorontsov, Alexander, 49, 61, 62

Vorontsov, Roman, 31

Wahhabis, 113

Warren, John, 124

Welleslev, Richard, 123

Willock, Henry, 155

Yerevan: 10, 130; eighteenth century status,

11, 12, 15, 16; opposes Aqa Mohammad

(1795), 20;and Zubov expedition, 30;

Russian interest in, 30,43, 64, 65; ac-

quired by Russia, 66,86,89; negotiations

with Russia, 67-69; significance in Russo-

Iranian territorial rivalry, 72, 76-77, 81,

120-21, 129, 131;Gudovich's attempted

conquest (1808), 105-6, 132; and Treaty

of Golestan, 144, 153; population shifts,

149, 150; acquired by Russia, 158. See

also Caucasus (Eastern)

Zaman (Dorrani shah), 55

Zamburak (cannon), 110

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