Abstract: Map numbered 1.A (Mount Ararat), and subtitled ‘Azarbāījān [Azerbaijan] Province. Erivan [Yerevan]. Erzerum [Erzurum] & Van Vilayets.’ An index to the geographical location of the provinces is provided below the map. A caption under the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, Surveyor General of India, 1922. A stamp in the bottom right corner of the map states that it was published by the Geographical Section General Staff, War Office.The map indicates: relief, shown by contours and shading, with elevations given in feet; rivers, lakes, marshes; province and country boundaries; settlements, with place names in English; railways, roads and other transport routes; the Indo-European Telegraph Line. A new boundary line, drawn in red ink with annotations, has been added to the map.The map is mentioned in a copy of a letter sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (John Allsebrook Simon), dated 1 July 1932, which states that the ‘Turkish military attaché has been so good as to draw upon sheets 1 A, 1 B, and 1 C [...] the line of the new frontier’ (f 48).Physical description: Materials:1 paper folio.Dimensions:462 x 367 mm, on sheet 615 x 444 mm.
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the Sirdar of Erivan, Hoossein Khan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan, Ḥusayn Qulī Khan Qājār], to Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār]. The letter concerns military operations in the khanate of Erivan [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], detailing the advance of Russian forces towards Erivan and the battles fought between Russian and Persian [Iranian] troops, including details of the numbers of troops involved and casualties sustained.This document was originally enclosed in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 14 May 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/227).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from Hussan Khan Sirdar [Ḥasan Qulī Khān Qājār] to Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār], of 23 Shawal [Shawwāl, 1242 AH] [20 May 1827]. The letter concerns the ongoing war between Persia [Iran] and Russia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. Hussan Khan Sirdar gives details of the Russian siege of Erivan [Yerevan], including the bombardment of the city and the conditions faced by the population. He also details the delay to the progress of a courier sent by Abbas Meerza caused by Russian troop movements in the area surrounding Erivan.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in dispatch No. 49, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 22 June 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/1).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of the substance of a letter from the Sirdar of Erivan, Hoossein Khan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan, Ḥusayn Qulī Khan Qājār], to the Kayim Makam [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā'im-Maqām], the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran]. In the letter, the Sirdar of Erivan gives instructions to the Kayim Makam regarding reinforcements and their provisions, and details the supplies available to his forces.This document was originally enclosed in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 14 May 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/227).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Memorandum of the siege of Erivan [Yerevan] by Russian troops under the command of General Peskowitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] from 5 October 1827 to 13 October 1827, by Lieutenant-Colonel William Monteith of the Madras Engineers, in Tabreez [Tabriz], dated 17 December 1827. This document was supplied to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, by Monteith, with information procured by him from Russian officers (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/145). The memorandum gives an account of the siege and capture of Erivan, and includes details of the composition of General Peskowitch’s forces and the casualties suffered by the Persians. Monteith also reflects on the impact of the siege on the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], arguing that the fall of Erivan allowed Russian troops to seize Tabreez and Khoey [Khoy] and provided Russia with captured provisions with which to continue their offensive against Persia.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2, in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 28 to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 17 December 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/145).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Map detailing the Russian siege of the fortress of Erivan [Yerevan] between 5 October 1827 and 13 October 1827 during the war between Persia [Iran] and Russia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], drawn up by Lieutenant-Colonel William Monteith. The map is based upon information procured by Monteith from Russian officers (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/145). The map illustrates the fortress of Erivan and the surrounding environs, indicating the sites of the bazaar, gardens, houses and vineyards of the city of Erivan, and the locations of the Russian artillery batteries and trench systems utilised during the siege. The map also shows the landscape surrounding Erivan, including hydrography and hachuring to represent the gorge of the River Zengue [River Hrazdan] and the surrounding hills. Included is a diagram of the profile of the wall of the fortress of Erivan.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in dispatch No. 28 of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 17 December 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/145).Physical description: Manuscript: coloured ink on paperDimensions: 595 x 425mm, on sheet 630 x 458mm
Abstract: Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp on the borders of the Lake of Shahee [Lake Urmia], to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 10 July 1827, which was received from the Foreign Office on 18 September 1827. The letter concerns the ongoing war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], detailing the failure of the Russian siege of Erivan [Yerevan], and the subsequent movement of Russian troops, commanded by General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky], to Nukshirvan [Nakhchivan]. The letter also reports: the onset of disease in the Russian army; the arrest of General Benkendoff [General Konstantin Khristoforovich Benkendorf] for his conduct in battle against the Persians (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/11); and the presence of the Archbishop of Tiflis [Tbilisi] in General Paskevitch’s camp, through whom Paskevitch is purportedly corresponding with the ‘principle Armenians’ in Persia and the adjacent provinces of the Ottoman Empire.The letter originally enclosed copies of the following documents:Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatches Nos. 53 and 54 to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/22-23)Correspondence between General Paskevitch and Macdonald Kinneir (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/24 and 27)A letter from General Paskevitch to Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] (IOR/L/PS/9/71/25)A letter from Abbas Meerza to his Vizier (IOR/L/PS/9/71/26).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp at Oojan [Ujan], to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 22 June 1827, which was received from the Foreign Office on 29 August 1827. The letter originally enclosed copies of Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 49 to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, and its enclosures, and six other enclosures numbered 1-6 (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/2-10, and IOR/L/PS/9/71/11-16). The letter concerns the ongoing war between Russia and Persia in the Caucasus [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], including:A Persian victory over Russian troops in battle near Erivan [Yerevan], and the movements of Russian and Persian forcesPeace overtures by the Prince Royal, Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār], and the respective circumstances under which Russia and Persia would settle for peaceThe possibility of Persia being successful in the war by pursuing a ‘war of detail’, and Macdonald Kinneir’s fear that Abbas Meerza might risk open battle against RussiaThe peace deal agreed between the Chief of Karabaug, Mehdi Khouli Khan [Governor of Qarabagh or Karabakh, Mahdī Qulī Khān Javānshīr], and Russia, and similar offers made to other ‘disaffected Chiefs’.The letter also refers to the appointment of Meerza Saleh [Mīrzā Ṣāliḥ Shīrāzī] as Chargé d'Affaires to the Sublime Porte [Ottoman Empire], and the return to Europe of the former Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Ephriam Gerrish Stannus.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 40 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, of 15 March 1827. The letter originally enclosed letters concerning the passage of the Russian officer Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov] and Meerza Mohomed Ali [Mirza Muḥammad ʿAlī Khan Shīrāzī] over the frontier between Persia and Russia (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/194-196); a letter from the former Russian Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Mazarowitch [Semyon Mazarovich], to the Sirdar of Erivan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan] offering Russian protection (IOR/L/PS/9/70/197); a letter from the Governor-General of Georgia to the Sirdar of Erivan (IOR/L/PS/9/70/198); and correspondence between Macdonald Kinneir and the Sirdar of Erivan (IOR/L/PS/9/70/199-200). In the letter, Macdonald Kinneir reports that the Russian armies in Georgia and Karabaug [Karabakh] have gone into winter quarters, and his expectation that hostilities between Russia and Persia should resume in May or June. He also details the secret deal between Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mirza Qājār] and the Pasha of Erzeroon [Erzurum] for the supply of military stores to Persia, and the apprehensions of the ‘Turks’ [Ottomans] at the possibility of the Russian capture of Erivan.This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 48 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, of 13 May 1827. The letter originally enclosed copies of correspondence from the Sirdar of Erivan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan, Ḥusayn Qulī Khan Qājār] to Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] concerning the Russian siege at Erivan (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/229-230). Macdonald Kinneir indicates that he has reason to believe the veracity of the details reported in the enclosed documents, and reports on the progress of the Russian siege, indicating that Russia is seeking to capture Erivan as quickly as possible and suggesting that Erivan will soon fall.This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 14 May 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/227).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 49 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 1 June 1827. The letter originally enclosed papers concerning the ongoing war between Russia and Persia in the Caucasus [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] and other matters (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/3-10). This letter concerns the ongoing war, detailing the Russian siege of Erivan [Yerevan], giving an account of a battle between Russian and Persian forces, and reporting on the movements of the army of the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār]. The letter also covers: military events in Dagistan [Dagestan]; the disgrace of the former Vizier to the Prince-Governor of Fars, Mahomed Zekee Khan [Muḥammad Zakī Khān], resulting from a dispute with British officials over the imprisonment of Sheikh Abdool Russool of Bushire [Shaikh of Bushehr, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rasūl Khān]; and an incident in which an individual bearing letters from the Government of India to Macdonald Kinneir was ‘plundered’ by ‘banditti’. A postscript also details the capture of communications between Russian generals (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/9-10).This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 22 June 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/1).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
