Persian gambit. Generals and diplomats. Shigin V.V.

A big game-this is what the politicians of past eras called the strategic confrontation of Russia and England in Transcaucasia, in the Middle East and Central Asia in the XVIII-XIX centuries. The book describes the complex struggle of Russian and English diplomats and intelligence, the exploits and fate of the most significant participants in the great game, the influence of this confrontation on the Russian-Turkish and Russian-Persian wars of that era. In addition, the reader learns about how the final conquest of the Transcaucasia and how England, having conquered the numerous tribes of internal India, took the southern approaches to Afghanistan.

The author talks about the sacrificial feat of the active participant of an unprecedented political battle - the poet and diplomat Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov, who at the cost of his life broke the geopolitical situation in the Transcaucasia in favor of Russia, and much more, which remains relevant today, two hundred years After.