‘Substance of a communication by an officer who deserted from the Russian camp’
IOR/L/PS/9/71/46
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The record is made up of 1 item (1 folio). It was created in Aug 1827-Sep 1827. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The substance of a communication from a Russian officer who has deserted, along with a private, from Sheesha [Shusha] during the war between Persia [Iran] and Russia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. The officer reported that Sheesha and the surrounding area are occupied by only a small number of Russian troops, who are poorly provisioned and ‘ripe for desertion’. The document also indicates that General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] had visited Geroos [Goris] and left there a number of sick soldiers before departing, and that it is falsely reported that he is at Nukshirvan [Nakhchivan].
This document was originally enclosed, numbered 6 in dispatch No. 64, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. of the East India Company of 5 September 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/38).
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- Aug 1827-Sep 1827 (CE, Gregorian)
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