Hartwig and Russian policy in Iran 1906-8. (N.G. Hartwig, Russian Representative in Iran)

From: Middle Eastern Studies | Date: January 1, 1993| Author: Martin, Vanessa | Copyright information

The conventional assessment of the diplomatic role of N.G. Hartwig in Russia's policy toward Iran from 1906 to 1908 is that he was a retrogressive advocate of absolutist imperialism and an opponent of the Anglo-Russian Agreement. But this view, which may be attributed to a dispatch written by Sir George Barclay in 1910, is at odds with the assessment of Hartwig's diplomatic colleagues. Hartwig did not, as Barclay asserted, plan the attack of the Cossack Brigade on the Iranian Majlis.

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