Pictures of Qajar period

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Unlike Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, the then-ruling monarch of Russia, viewed Georgia as a pivot for her Caucasian policy, as Russia’s new aspirations were to use it as a base of operations against both homeland and the Ottoman Empire, both immediate bordering geopolitical rivals of Russia.

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