‘Draft of the conditions for Peace offered by the Russian Plenipotentiary General Obreskoff to His Excellency The Kaim Mukam at the Conference held at Kara-Melek on the 3d of November 1827’
‘Draft of the conditions for Peace offered by the Russian Plenipotentiary General Obreskoff to His Excellency The Kaim Mukam at the Conference held at Kara-Melek on the 3d of November 1827’
‘Draft of the conditions for Peace offered by the Russian Plenipotentiary General Obreskoff to His Excellency The Kaim Mukam at the Conference held at Kara-Melek on the 3d of November 1827’
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Drafts (in both English and Persian) of the peace conditions offered by the Russian plenipotentiary General Obreskoff [Aleksandr Mikhailovich Obreskov] to the Kaim Mukam [Mirza Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām], the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], at the peace conference held at Kara-Melek on 3 November 1827, with regard to the conclusion of the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. The terms include demands for the territorial cession from Persia to Russia of the khanates of Erivan [Yerevan], Nukshirvan [Nakhchivan] and Talish, and for reparations of fifteen crores of tomans [Persian currency], in return for the evacuation of Azerbijan [Azerbaijan] by Russian troops. The conditions also give instructions for the payment of the reparations in instalments and for the signature of the conditions by Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār].These documents were originally enclosed, numbered 1, in dispatch No. 74 of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 8 November 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/98).Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)