Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
| Russo-Persian War (1804–1813) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Russo-Persian Wars, Russian conquest of the Caucasus and the Napoleonic Wars | |||||||||
This painting by Franz Roubaud illustrates an episode near the Askerna river where the Russians managed to repel attacks by a larger Persian army for two weeks. They made a "living bridge", so that two cannons could be transported over their bodies. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Russian Empire | Qajar Iran | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Alexander I Ivan Gudovich Pavel Tsitsianov X Pyotr Kotlyarevsky Alexander Tormasov |
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar Abbas Mirza Ali Mirza Javad Khan Qajar † Sadeq Khan Qajar † | ||||||||
The Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813 was one of the many wars between the Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, and, like many of their other conflicts, began as a territorial dispute. The new Persian king, Fath Ali Shah Qajar, wanted to consolidate the northernmost reaches of his kingdom—modern-day Georgia—which had been annexed by Tsar Paul I several years after the Russo-Persian War of 1796. Like his Persian counterpart, the Tsar Alexander I was also new to the throne and equally determined to control the disputed territories.
The war ended in 1813 with the Treaty of Gulistan which ceded the previously disputed territory of Georgia to Imperial Russia, and also the undisputed Iranian territories of Dagestan, most of what is modern Azerbaijan, and minor parts of Armenia.