Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant-General Aristoff, in camp at Tauris, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant-General Aristoff, in camp at Tauris, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant-General Aristoff, in camp at Tauris, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Copy of a letter, in French, from Lieutenant-General Aristoff [Georgii Yevseevich Eristov], in camp at Tauris [Tabriz], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 16 August [possibly October] 1827 [Old Style]/28 August [possibly October] 1827 [New Style]. The letter concerns the Russian occupation of Tauris during the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. Aristoff informs Macdonald Kinneir that a guard has been placed at the British residence in Tauris, and that the houses and property of the British residents in Tauris have been respected.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 11, in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 73 to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 1 November 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/84).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)