Archive Files on the Şahin Geray’s Contribution to the Russo-Persian Relations
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History
Year: 2020

The paper aims to provide insight into the content of the diplomatic documents from the "Persian" fund of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, which reveals the role of the Crimean prince ahin Geray in relations between Safavid Iran and the Russian Tsardom at the turn of the 1620s and 1630s. A detailed source examination is given to a group of nineteen texts dated by 1630. This set consists of letters in Turki and Farsi as well as their Russian translations and a preface by the administrat