The Progress and Present Position of Russia in the East: An Historical Summary ...J. Murray, 1854 - 170 páginas |
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Página 41 - good faith" of Russia toward Turkey, and her "antipathy" against all aggrandizement? The good will of Russia toward Turkey! Peter I 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...
Página 65 - Russia, and it remained one of those points which it would have been the duty of commissioners to decide upon. The claims of Persia were at least as well supported as those of Russia ; and some of the Russian official maps had marked Kapan as belonging to Persia. It was therefore an obvious injustice to seize an undisputed possession of...
Página 79 - ... 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 3 - The disastrous campaign of 1711 dispelled for a time the delusion as to the weakness and speedy dissolution of the Ottoman empire, as well as the belief in the discontent of her Christian subjects...
Página 22 - Lesguees and other mountaineers, whom they were unable to control, made a simultaneous application (1752) to Russia for assistance, which, if not afforded, was at least promised. This 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 Tamaras from his kingdom (1760), and united it to his...
Página 156 - Article xiv.) as of those who belong to it, promising to take them into consideration as coming from a person in the confidence of a neighbouring and sincerely friendly power.
Página 43 - Every step in advance has been the deliberate act of her government — the mature result of long preparation. For a hundred years have her successive sovereigns per fas et nefas steadily pursued the same object, varying the means, but never relinquishing the purpose. After the death of Kerreem Khan, King of Persia, a protracted contest was carried on by the numerous competitors for the vacant throne ; and it was not until Aga-Mahommed Khan had triumphed over all his antagonists, and cut off the...
Página 148 - There he issued a proclamation, which contained the following passage : — " Good neighbours, — It is with the greatest regret that my most gracious master, the emperor of all the Russias, sees himself forced to send into your country the troops under my orders. But his majesty the king of Sweden, whilst withdrawing more and more from the happy alliance of the two greatest empires in the world, draws closer his connections with the common enemy...
Página 112 - Gazette" threatens to dictate at Calcutta the next peace with England, and Russia never ceases to urge the Persian Government to accept from it, free of all cost, officers to discipline its troops, and arms and artillery for its soldiers, at the same time that her own battalions are ready to march into Persia whenever the Shah, to whom their services are freely offered, can be induced to require their assistance.
Página 88 - 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.