Email this article Documents of the embassy of the Persian Messenger Haji Muhammad-‘Ali to Russia in 1642-1643
- Authors: Pischurnikova E.P.1, Shorohov V.A.2, Yastrebova O.M.3,1
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Affiliations:
- Saint Petersburg University
- Saint Petersburg State University
- National Library of Russia
- Issue: Vol 20, No 3 (2023)
- Pages: 43-56
- Section: Publications
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/1811-8062/article/view/323156
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.55512/WMO323156
- ID: 323156
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The paper aims to introduce four Persian documents (a farman and three petitions) from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, Fund 77 “Relations between Russia and Persia” into scholarly discourse. These documents are directly related to the visit of Haji Muhammad-‘Ali, messenger from Iranian Shah ‘Abbas II, to the Tsardom of Russia. He was delegated to travel to the Russian state in relation to Shah Safi I’s death in order to meet with the kupchina (official Shah’s tradesman) Bijan-bek in Moscow in 1641–1643 and hand over the gifts to the ruler of the Russian state on behalf of the new Iranian Shah. In this paper, the farman and petitions are translated into Russian; the Persian original and translation are preceded by a historical and linguistic commentary.
About the authors
Ekaterina P. Pischurnikova
Saint Petersburg University
Email: e.pischurnikova@spbu.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0004-7045-6641
Assistant at the Department of
Iranian Philology, Faculty of Asian and African Studies
Vladimir A. Shorohov
Saint Petersburg State University
Email: v.shorohov@spbu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0866-8529
Сand. Sci. (History), Associate Professor at the Institute of Theology
Russian Federation, St. PetersburgOlga M. Yastrebova
National Library of Russia; Saint Petersburg University
Author for correspondence.
Email: yastolg@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3140-2139
Cand. Sci. (Philology), Senior Researcher at the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia; Leading Research Fellow, Institute of History
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg; St. PetersburgReferences
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