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Heraclius II of Georgia had asked General …
Years: 1795 - 1795
Heraclius II of Georgia had asked General Gudovich, commander of the Russian Caucasian Line, for renewed military aid when Agha Mohammad Khan, head of the Qajar tribe that has ruled the eastern part of Persia (Iran) from 1785, was in Tabriz in 1791, but the government in St. Petersburg did not judge it expedient to send troops again to Georgia.
In 1792, Gudovich told Heraclius that he would receive only diplomatic support in the advent of any Iranian onslaught.
Despite being left to his own devices, Heraclius still cherishes a dream of establishing, with Russian protection, a strong and united monarchy, into which the western Georgian Kingdom of Imereti and the lost provinces under Ottoman rule will all eventually be drawn.
The consequences of these events come a few years later, when a new dynasty, the Qajars, emerge victorious in the protracted power struggle in Persia.
Their head, Agha Mohammad Khan, as his first objective, has resolved to bring the Caucasus again fully under the Persian orbit.
For Agha Mohammah Khan, the resubjugation and reintegration of Georgia into the Iranian Empire is part of the same process that has brought Shiraz, Isfahan, and Tabriz under his rule.
He views, like the Safavids and Nader Shah before him, the territories no different than the territories in mainland Iran.
Georgia is a province of Iran the same way Khorasan is.
As the Cambridge History of Iran states, its permanent secession was inconceivable and had to be resisted in the same way as one would resist an attempt at the separation of Fars or Gilan.
It is therefore natural for Agha Mohammad Khan to perform whatever necessary means in the Caucasus in order to subdue and reincorporate the recently lost regions following Nader Shah's death and the demise of the Zands, including putting down what in Iranian eyes is seen as treason on the part of the wali of Georgia.
Finding an interval of peace amid their own quarrels and with northern, western, and central Persia secure, the Persians demand Heraclius II to renounce the treaty with Russia and to reaccept Persian suzerainty, in return for peace and the security of his kingdom.
The Ottomans, Iran's neighboring rival, recognize Iran's rights over Kartli and Kakheti for the first time in four centuries.
Heraclius appeals now to his theoretical protector, Empress Catherine II of Russia, pleading for at least three thoisand Russian troops, but he is not listened to, leaving Georgia to fend off the Persian threat alone.
Nevertheless, Heraclius II still rejects the Khan’s ultimatum.
In 1792, Gudovich told Heraclius that he would receive only diplomatic support in the advent of any Iranian onslaught.
Despite being left to his own devices, Heraclius still cherishes a dream of establishing, with Russian protection, a strong and united monarchy, into which the western Georgian Kingdom of Imereti and the lost provinces under Ottoman rule will all eventually be drawn.
The consequences of these events come a few years later, when a new dynasty, the Qajars, emerge victorious in the protracted power struggle in Persia.
Their head, Agha Mohammad Khan, as his first objective, has resolved to bring the Caucasus again fully under the Persian orbit.
For Agha Mohammah Khan, the resubjugation and reintegration of Georgia into the Iranian Empire is part of the same process that has brought Shiraz, Isfahan, and Tabriz under his rule.
He views, like the Safavids and Nader Shah before him, the territories no different than the territories in mainland Iran.
Georgia is a province of Iran the same way Khorasan is.
As the Cambridge History of Iran states, its permanent secession was inconceivable and had to be resisted in the same way as one would resist an attempt at the separation of Fars or Gilan.
It is therefore natural for Agha Mohammad Khan to perform whatever necessary means in the Caucasus in order to subdue and reincorporate the recently lost regions following Nader Shah's death and the demise of the Zands, including putting down what in Iranian eyes is seen as treason on the part of the wali of Georgia.
Finding an interval of peace amid their own quarrels and with northern, western, and central Persia secure, the Persians demand Heraclius II to renounce the treaty with Russia and to reaccept Persian suzerainty, in return for peace and the security of his kingdom.
The Ottomans, Iran's neighboring rival, recognize Iran's rights over Kartli and Kakheti for the first time in four centuries.
Heraclius appeals now to his theoretical protector, Empress Catherine II of Russia, pleading for at least three thoisand Russian troops, but he is not listened to, leaving Georgia to fend off the Persian threat alone.
Nevertheless, Heraclius II still rejects the Khan’s ultimatum.
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- Georgians
- Russians (East Slavs)
- Qajars (Turkic Oghuz tribe)
- Ottoman Empire
- Imeriti, Kingdom of
- Russian Empire
- Persia, Afsharid Kingdom of
- Persia, Zandid Kingdom of
- Kartli-Kakheti, Kingdom of
- Persia, Qajarid Kingdom of
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Years: 1795 - 1795
Locations
People
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- Georgians
- Russians (East Slavs)
- Qajars (Turkic Oghuz tribe)
- Ottoman Empire
- Imeriti, Kingdom of
- Russian Empire
- Persia, Afsharid Kingdom of
- Persia, Zandid Kingdom of
- Kartli-Kakheti, Kingdom of
- Persia, Qajarid Kingdom of
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Subregions