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Coll 28/43 ‘Persia. Russia & Soviet Legation at Tehran.’ [63r] (125/162)
The record is made up of 1 file (79 folios). It was created in 18 May 1923-18 Aug 1941. It was written in English and French. 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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Ho. T/48
British Consulate General,
t
MESHED •
12th September, 1923.
Sir,
In your Despatch No# 25, dated the 8th June 1923, you
kindly gave me an appreciation of the Soviet Russian Consul
General Apresov newly appointed to Meshed. You concluded
with the expression of your opinion that if given sufficient
rope the man would soon hang himself.
This prophecy seems to be on the point of fulfilment,
for on the 10th instant M. Apresov announced that he was
proceeding to Tehran in four days* time to complain against
all the high Persian officials in Meshed! I understand
that he is taking his wife with him.
His chief grievances appear to be
(1) that he has not been allowed to open a Library
in the city,
(2) that the elections for the new Majlis are not
being conducted in a way that he approves and particularly
that no members of the "Union of Khorasan" ( Ittihad-1 -
Khorasan ) are being given a chance to win seats,
(3) that the Chief of Police, Major Mudabbir-ul-Mulk,
who was at Resht with him when he first went there, is still
hostile to him and keeps too close a watch on the Russian
Colony here,
(4) that he has not been given satisfaction for the
insult inflicted on him, in his own office by the Russian
woman Denisova.
M. Apresov has stated openly that he cannot return to
Meshed/
Sir Percy Loraine, Bart., C.i.*.G.,
His Majesty*s Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia,
TEHRAN.
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Correspondence relating to the appointment of a Russian ambassador to Persia [Iran]. Letters from HM’s Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Sir Percy Loraine, record the British Government’s fierce resistance to the appointment of a Russian ambassador. Loraine’s concern was that such an appointment would elevate Russia’s diplomatic presence in Persia to a level superior to Britain’s. The file includes two brief communiqués between Loraine and the Russian ambassador, dated December 1925 (ff 44-45). Written in French, they record the occasion of the Russian diplomatic mission’s elevation to the rank of embassy. Subsequent correspondence concerns the movements, activities and changes in personnel at the Russian Embassy in Tehran, as well as reports of Russian espionage in Persia.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (79 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 81; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 28/43 ‘Persia. Russia & Soviet Legation at Tehran.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:12v, 15r:43v, 45r:80v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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