Gastone Persian Arabesques

Political Memoirs of Ivan Jakovlevich Korostovetz
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-138374-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 53, 217 Seiten

Reihe: Studies on Modern Orient

Persian Arabesques is an unpublished chapter in the history of Russian diplomacy as told by one of its most brilliant protagonists, Ivan J. Korostovetz (1862–1933). After his successes both at the Portsmouth Peace Treaty of 1905, where he served as secretary of the Russian-Japanese Conference, and at the Friendship Treaty with Mongolia, which he signed in 1912, Korostovetz describes in detail his memories of the last events of his diplomatic career. From 1913 to 1918, when he fled into exile to avoid imprisonment, he served mainly in Persia, for example as Russian Minister Plenipotentiary (1913–1915). As an important historical primary source, the memoirs describe not only current political events, but also various local customs and manners. Topics range from history and geography to regional religions and Byzantine-Persian literature.

Zielgruppe

Historians of Russia and Russian diplomacy, Iran, Central Asia

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gastone, Carlo

Über Autor(innen)

Carlo Gastone