The 1819 Russian survey of the Khanate of Sheki [Shakki]
Subtitle: a primary source on the demography and economy of an Iranian province prior to its annexation by Russia
By: annotated translation from the original 1867 edition with an introduction, comments and appendix by George A. Bournoutian
Series: Bibliotheca Iranica : the Iranian heritage in the Caucasus and Central Asia -- no. 1
Publisher: Mazda Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Costa Mesa, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781568593159
Subjects: Statistics; Relations; Households; Sources; Economic surveys; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Property; Population; History
Other titles: 1819 Russian survey of the Khanate of Sheki; 1819 Russian survey of the Khanate of Shakki; Eighteen nineteen Russian survey of the Khanate of Sheki [Shakki]
Description: "Following the annexation of Georgia (1801), Russia in 1803 appointed General Paul Tsitsianov as the Commander-in-Chief and Civilian Governor of Georgia, Inspector of the Caucasian Line, and Military Governor of Astrakhan. Having been given such unprecedented authority, Tsitsianov, himself a Russianized Georgian prince, decided to prove himself to the tsar by completely subjugating the kingdom of eastern Georgia and by bringing the various khanates located south of the Caucasus Mountains, which had been nominally under Iranian suzerainty for some three centuries, under Russian authority. After arresting and exiling most of the Georgian royal family to Russia, Tsitsianov sent messages to the khans of the South Caucasus demanding their submission to Russia. Tsitsianov's intention was to frighten the khans to such an extent that they would turn away from Iran--which, by now had resolved its internal problems and had accepted Fath ʻAli Shah Qajar (the Following the annexation of each khanate, Yermolov commissioned a detailed demographic and economic survey. Only a handful of these surveys, describing the socioeconomic conditions of a former Iranian province in its last year of its existence have survived in the archives of Russia, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. The first volume of this series is an English translation, with an introduction, annotations and commentary of the first survey, that of Sheki [Shakki]"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Transliteration, geographical names and dates; title: Weights, measures and currencies; title: Explanatory remarks; title: Plate: Facsimile of a page from the original survey; title: Map 1: South Caucasus, ca. 1800; title: The 1819 Russian survey of the Sheki Province; title: Register 1: Revenues from the Sheki Mahal; title: Register 2: Revenues from the Aghdash Mahal; title: Register 3: Revenues from the Aresh Mahal; title: Register 4: Revenues from the Alpaut Mahal; title: Register 5: Revenues from the Khachmaz Mahal; title: Register 6: Revenues from the Padar Mahal; title: Register 7: Revenues from the Kutkamish Mahal; title: Register 8: Revenues from the Bum Mahal; title: Register 9: Revenues from the town of Nukha; title: Register 10: The Khan's personal income; title: Register 11: The molks of Kutkashin Mahal; title: Register 12: The molks of Aghadsh Mahal; title: Register 13: The molks of Aresh Mahal; title: Register 14: The molks of Bum Mahal; title: Register 15: The molks of Sheki Mahal; title: Map 2: The location of some of the villages indicated in the survey; title: Appendix.