Progress and Present Position of Russia in the EastJ. Murray, 1836 - 151 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
acquisitions Afghans Aga-Mahmed aggressions ally ambassador ambition Araxes arms army Asia Astrachan attack attempt Bosphorus Britain British Caspian Caucasus chief Christian command commerce connexion conquest Constantinople contest court Dardanelles declared defend desire dominions Egypt embassy Emperor Empress endeavoured enemy engaged England Erivan established Europe favour force fortress France frontier Georgia Ghilan Gokcheh Greece Heraclius Herat hostilities Immeretia independence India induced influence Ismael Beg James Boswell Johnson Khan kingdom Krimea Lesguees Mahommed Mahommedan maintain ment military Mingrelia Moldavia Nadir Napoleon nation object occupied officers oppose Ottoman empire Pasha peace Persia Persia and Turkey Persian government Peter Petersburgh Poland Porte Portrait position possession preserve Prince Royal protection provinces rebel resistance Russia Russian empire sent Shah sovereign Stanfield subjects subjugation success Sultan Talish Tehran territory threatened throne tion tranquillity treaty treaty of Adrianople Treaty of London tribe troops Turkey Turkish Turks views Voinovitch Wallachia whole
Pasajes populares
Página 50 - Peter proposed to raise himself on the ruins of Turkey — Catherine persuaded Austria, and called upon France to participate in the proposed dismemberment of Turkey, and the establishment of a Greek empire at Constantinople, under her grandson, who had been educated and even named with a view to this result — Nicholas, more moderate, only demands the exclusive protectorate of Turkey. Mankind will not forget that Russia was the protector of Poland- — the protector of the Crimea — the protector...
Página 141 - Rhenish provinces ; and that her acquisitions from Turkey in Asia are equal in extent to all the smaller states of Germany, the Rhenish provinces of Prussia, Belgium, and Holland taken together ; that the country she has conquered from Persia is about the size of England ; 142 that her acquisitions in Tartary have an area equal to Turkey in Europe, Greece, Italy, and Spain...
Página 94 - ... place the allied courts under the necessity of recurring to such measures as they should judge most efficacious for putting an end to a state of things, which was become incompatible even with the true interests of the Sublime Porte, with the security of commerce in general, and with the perfect tranquillity of Europe.
Página 104 - Porte should confirm the internal regulations for the government of these provinces which Russia had established while she occupied them ; removed partly by force, and partly by the influence of the priesthood, many thousand families of Armenians from the Turkish provinces in Asia to his own territories, as he had already moved nearly an equal...
Página 27 - Georgia, harassed by continued at» tacks from the mountaineers, whom they were unable to control, made a simultaneous application to Russia for assistance^ which was granted. This occurred about 1752, and may be considered the first step towards the separation of Georgia from Persia ; for Russia from this time forward pressed with persevering activity her intercourse with these Persian dependencies. About eight years after this occurrence, Heraclius drove his father Tararas from his kingdom, and...
Página 78 - Royal against the military occupation of this part of 77 the Persian territory, General Yermoloff had replied by admitting the justice of the Prince's remarks, but excused himself on the plea that the measure he had adopted was mutually advantageous ; and concluded, by offering to withdraw the detachment, if his Royal Highness should continue to think it necessary. " Yet after all this, Russia, on the strength of an unratified engagement, concluded by the agent of a deputed authority...
Página 9 - Pierre méditait depuis longtemps le projet de dominer sur la mer Caspienne par une puissante marine, et de faire passer par ses États le commerce de la Perse et d'une partie de l'Inde. Il avait fait sonder les profondeurs de cette mer, examiner les côtes et dresser des cartes exactes.
Página 156 - He wore a full suit of plain brown clothes, with twisted-hair buttons of the same colour, a large bushy greyish wig, a plain shirt, black worsted stockings, and silver buckles. Upon this tour, when journeying, he wore boots, and a very wide brown cloth great coat, with pockets which might have almost held the two volumes of his folio dictionary; and he carried in his hand a large English oak stick.
Página 104 - March, which secured to her the suzerainete of Greece, and a yearly tribute from that country ; Russia used all her influence to procure the independence of Greece, and the violation by herself and her allies of the agreement which she had made an integral part of the treaty of Adrianople.