‘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’
IOR/L/PS/9/71/99
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The record is made up of 1 item (3 folios). It was created in 3 Nov 1827. It was written in English and Persian. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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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 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. [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 A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. 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).
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- Crown Prince of Persia, Qajar dynastyMīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī
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- ‘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’
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- 1r:2v
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- IOR/L/PS/9/71/99
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- ‘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’
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- 3r:3v
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- The copyright status is unknown. Please contact [email protected] with any information you have regarding this item.
