Участие калмыков в Дербентском походе 1722 г.
Journal: Bulletin of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Year: 2018

The article examines an understudied episode in the history of the Kalmyk Khanate ― participation of Kalmyk horse troops in the Persian (Derbent) Campaign of 1722. And that was during the campaign when the first ― and most memorable ― meeting between the Russian Tsar Peter the Great and the Kalmyk Khan Ayuka took place. The main question discussed at the negotiations was that of Kalmyk horse troops to join the military expedition. Outcomes of the meeting proved positive enough, the only contesta