Abdication of Czar of Georgia in favour of Emperor of Russia, 1800—Prince Alexander defeated by General Lazeroff—Capture of Genja—Battle of Etchmiadzeen—Seeseeanoff routs Persians and lays Siege to Erivan—Nocturnal Attacks—Siege of Erivan raised—Events on Eastern and Southern Frontiers of Persia—Bokhara, Nermansheer, and Seistan—Chief of Karabagh submits to Russia—Campaign in that Province—Russian Descent on Gilan—Capture of Genja by Persians—Assassination of Seeseeanoff—Mission of M. Jaubert—Fall of Ibraheem Khaleel Khan—Turko-Persian Frontier—Establishment of Russian Authority from the Caucasus to Moghan—War between Persians and Affghans—Embassies from Napoleon and from the Talpoors of Sindh—Embassy from England—Treaty—Mission from India—Disaster to Persian Arms in Russian War—Capture of Lankoran—Peace of Gulistan, 1813
IT has been mentioned in a previous chapter that
Goorgeen, or George, who had succeeded his father
Heraclius as Czar of Georgia, had written to Fetteh-Ali
Shah making his submission to that monarch, and that
Fetteh Ali had accepted this act of allegiance on the part
of the Iberian prince. The war which had been waged
between Russia and Persia in the cause of the Czar
Heraclius seems not until long afterwards to have been
concluded by a formal treaty of peace. At the death of
Catherine and of Aga Mahomed, hostilities on both sides
ceased. The caprice or policy of the Emperor Paul
caused a check to be placed for a time on the aggressive
movements of the great northern power, and Fetteh Ali
Shah, as we have seen, was fully occupied in putting
