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Notes on Russian relations with Kalclzeti and Kartli hetween 1590 and 1604 page 369
8. Georgians at the Court of Boris Godunov 379 9· Minutiae 40 I
10. The old road to Soni 415 I I. Crises in Kakheti 434 12. Parricide in Zagem 454 13. The move to Kartli 469 14. A plethora of princes 481 15. Disaster on the Terek 501
COMMENTARIES ON THE TEXT 45. The Po solski Prikaz (AM) 516 46. On the rank of Yaselnichi (AMJWEDA) 517 47. 'The Turkish Pasha of Genzha, Kaikhosr' 518 48. Georgian coronation customs 5 18 49. The feud between the Kakhian princes 5 19 50. The Gold Painted Hall (AM) 520 5 I. The approaches to Tarku 521 52. 'Alexander's fort' 522 53. The route from Tarku to Zagem 52 4 54. Vasili and Andrey Shchelkalov (WEDAJAM) 52 5 55. Relations between Boris Godunov and the
Sublime Porte 526
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56. Opinion among the chieftains of Daghestan in 1604 page 528
and family 539 64. 'The Archbishop of Golgotha, Theodosius'
(WED A/AM) 540 65. The town of Gori 541 66. Precedence among the kings in Georgia 542 67. The Bagratid royal children 543 68. 'King Yuri's uncle Wakhtang': and the Bagratids
ofMukhrani 545 69. Tsar Boris's daughter Xenia 547 70. Buturlin's catastrophe at Tarku 549 7 I. Castelli and his drawings 5 50
tan in 1599 5 56
Georgia' 573 vi
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by Ibrahim Miiteferrika in his edition of Katib Chelebi's Cihan Numa published in Istanbul in 1734. It is signed 'the work of Ahmet el-Kirimi', and is based on G. Delisle's Carte des Pays voisins de la Mer Caspiene of 172 3 facing page 572
Key map of Eastern Caucasia to illustrate Embassies at end of volume
II. A Georgian noble (tavadi). After Castel1i facing page 454 12. A Russian strelets. After Castelli 471 13. 'Levend-oghlu (=Alexander II of Kakheti) and
Lala Mustafa Pasha.' From the Shqa~atname of Asafi, MS. TY 6043, fo1. 19 v., of Istanbul University Library facing page 495
14. A Turkish archer. After Castelli 502 15. A Turkish musketeer (tufonji). After Castelli 519 16. Tarku town, c. 1634. From Olearius/W., Vol. I,
PP. 1055-6 549 ix
