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Bazilenko I.V. Essays on History of Russian-Iranian Relations (end of XVI - early XX cc) [Очерки истории российско-иранских отношений (конец XVI — начало XX вв.)]. St. Petersburg, Argus SPb, 2017. 432 p. ISBN 978-5-9909650-5-8
Russia is the heartland of Eurasia and Iran is the heartland
of the Middle East. The Middle East is a relative term used for
the region of West Asia and often understood as the designation
of the sum of the countries of the Middle East along with Iran,
Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
The term “Iran” — the name of the country that for many
centuries was Russia’s southern neighbor — comes from the toponym
“Eranshahr” (“Kingdom of Aryans”), which was the term used by
the Sassanid Persian Empire for its homeland (224-651).
“Arya” are the Aryan tribes who created independent
state formations in the vast territorial expanse of Eurasia by
the first millennium BC and are considered the common ancestors
of the present Slavic and Iranian peoples.
Orthodox Russia and Shi’ite Iran have for centuries been associated
not only by certain political relations, but also by the mystical
unity of spiritual culture inherent to the descendants of the Aryan
peoples. The idea of this unity of Aryan peoples — as well as
theories of common origin, hypotheses explaining the similarity
of developmental paths, elements of culture, and features of national
characters — all of these factors, sometimes regardless of their
degree of reliability and conformity to historical truth prevailing
in any given time period, are as real as they exert their influence
on the worldview of their contemporaries, and, as a consequence, on
the entire course of the subsequent history and fate of civilization.
Consequently, the study of the history of Russian-Iranian relations
at all stages of development acquires a special meaning and plays an
important role in predicting the future of the two peoples... PDF-files
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Keywords
the history of Iran
the history of Russia
Russian-Iranian Relations
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