Treaty of Gulistan · Ahdnameh-ye Golestan

Culture of origin: Iranian · Historical

Holiday sources: Azerbaijani · Iran · Talysh

The treaty ended the first full-scale Russo-Persian War (1804–1813). It was signed in the village of Gulistan, now in Azerbaijan, by Nikolai Rtishchev for Russia and Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi for Iran; the British diplomat Sir Gore Ouseley drafted it as mediator. Iran ceded what is now Dagestan, eastern Georgia, most of the Republic of Azerbaijan and parts of northern Armenia, and part of the Talysh Khanate, whose citadel at Lankaran Russia had taken in January 1813. It was the first of the treaties by which Qajar Iran lost the Caucasus, and it led directly to the next war.