✦ History

Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)

1804 – October 24, 1813

Result Russian victory

Ended by Treaty of Gulistan

Russia and Qajar Persia fought over Georgia and the Caucasus. Persia lost, and the Treaty of Gulistan gave Russia most of the eastern Caucasus.

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Battles 7

1804
Battle of Echmiadzin (1804) Vagharshapat Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Pavel Tsitsianov, Abbas Mirza
January 15, 1804
Siege of Ganja (1804) Russian victory Ganja Javad Khan, Pavel Tsitsianov
July 1804 – September 1804
Siege of Erivan (1804) Persian victory Yerevan Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Pavel Tsitsianov, Abbas Mirza
July 6–27, 1805
Karyagin's Raid Russian victory Abbas Mirza, Pyotr Kotlyarevsky
October 1808 – November 1808
Siege of Erivan (1808) Iranian victory Yerevan Hossein Khan Sardar, Ivan Gudovich, Abbas Mirza
October 31 – November 1, 1812
Battle of Aslanduz Russian victory Aslan Duz Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Mohammad-Ali Mirza Dowlatshah, Abbas Mirza
January 13, 1813
Siege of Lankaran Russian victory Qajar Iran Pyotr Kotlyarevsky

Key commanders

Russia 3

Pyotr Kotlyarevsky military commander Pavel Tsitsianov military commander Ivan Gudovich military commander

Qajar Iran 5

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar military commander Mohammad-Ali Mirza Dowlatshah military commander Abbas Mirza military commander Javad Khan military commander Hossein Khan Sardar military commander

Russian Empire 5

Pyotr Kotlyarevsky military commander Alexander I of Russia belligerent leader Alexander Tormasov belligerent leader Pavel Tsitsianov military commander Ivan Gudovich military commander