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Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
Alexander IIvan GudovichPavel TsitsianovXPyotr Kotlyarevsky (WIA)Alexander TormasovJafar Donboli
Fath-Ali ShahAbbas MirzaAli MirzaMohammad KhanHossein Sardar
Javad Khan†Sadeq Qajar†12 guns
17 guns
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.