Treatise of Iberian Kings and Russian-Austrian Project for the Redistribution of Europe

Abstract

The present study is the first attempt in historiography to evaluate the Treatise of Iberian Kings, signed in 1790, within the context of the international political processes of the corresponding period. Development of the events in the Georgian political field and the need for a documentary declaration of military-political unity can be explained only by the Greek Projectthe Austrian-Russian project of the redistribution of Europe in the 70-the 90s of the XVIII century. The article shows that the declaration of the unity of the Georgian political space became necessary during the truce negotiations with the Ottoman Empire in 1791 in Yasa. Based on the referred document, Russia should have declared a united Georgia as a separate buffer political space together with the Dacian Kingdom and the Greek Empire in accordance with the structure of the Greek Project. It is stated, for the first time in historiography that the need to sign the Treatise of Iberian Kings is directly related to the truce negotiation process during the Russian-Ottoman war. Hence, the Georgian political spectrum had claims to return Adjara and Samtskhe Saatabago during the process of possible redistribution of the Ottoman Empire, June 23, 2023 • Oxford, United Kingdom • 275 . and whether the referred political process had any outlined principles. To what extent the integration of a new format state into the international political space was possible in the event of the realization of the idea of Georgian unity. Whether the international processes made any contribution to the unification of Georgia.The novelty of the study The issue of the unification of the Kartli-Kakheti and Imereti kingdoms, in relation with the project of the redistribution of Europe in the 70-90s of the XVIII century is reviewed for the first time in the present study. Moreover, the Treatise on Iberian Kings and Chiefs within the context of the unification of the Kartli-Kakheti and Imereti kingdoms is reviewed for the first time as well.The specific purpose of the Treaty as a legally formalized document of a united Georgian political space within the international political processes is explained for the first time in historiography.The opinion that the diplomatic service of the Russian Imperial Court was supposed to support the international interests of Kartli-Kakheti during the Yasa truce negotiation process in 1791 (during the possible redistribution of the territories of the Ottoman Empire) based on this document is expressed for the first time.The present study is a part of our scientific monograph, which is devoted to the Russian-Austrian plan for the transformation of Europe in the 70-90s of the XVIII century -the Greek project. Excerpts from our research have been published in various scientific publications in Oxford [43; 59],

King of Imereti Solomon I and the Project of Resettlement Kabardians to Georgia

“…The present study is a part of our scientific monograph, which is devoted to the Russian-Austrian plan for the transformation of Europe in the 70-90s of the centurythe Greek project. Excerpts from our research have been published in various scientific publications in Oxford [50;59;63], Cambridge [47;52;56], Washington[62],…”

“…It forms the grounds to assume that Solomon I is the initiator and co-author of this project together with Erekle the King of Kartli-Kakheti.It is demonstrated for the first time in historiography that four years after the failed project of 1778, when trying to implement the project again in 1782, Erekle used not his own diplomatic resources for sending to Kabardino but the diplomatic resources of Imereti Royal Court.The present study is a part of our scientific monograph, which is devoted to the Russian-Austrian plan for the transformation of Europe in the 70-90s of the centurythe Greek project. Excerpts from our research have been published in various scientific publications in Oxford [50;59;63], Cambridge [47;52;56], Washington[62],…”