[000:00:00;00] i was, of course, from the point of view of security and becoming the criteria for trade and what was then called the legitimate interests of russia . very difficult in 1807 , the first secret report is placed on the table to emperor alexander. it is reported that english merchants trade in bukhara. he took pictures of them with his insidious intent, they buy up various things and bread for themselves at a high price, and he sells it among the people with a significant for a loss, the costs are paid, of course, the east int company, which

thus eliminates the russian merchants of competitors in central asia is intensified the work of the english residency and economic operations against the russian merchants murks, was very much engaged in intelligence in 1818, the chinese authorities. here in eastern turkistan, pasted up drawings with his head with the image. that is, where it was written that if you see such people, here he was red-haired, here he was with a red beard to say to catch and deliver the authorities. the russian intelligence agent, who received the name failov in russia, was riding

in a jacket. born to the king with a gold medal for trading in russian goods in the markets where caravans with russian goods pass, then russian troops will be able to pass in their report. he wrote that the russians were preparing a monstrous conquest plan, soon a detachment, a mehdir. failova, disappeared on a mountain pass under unclear circumstances, morcraft went further to kashgaria, afghanistan and finally, bukhara, the russian shouted a trace , the local

children of warcraft entering the city as a traveler understood, russian have already visited and here the british intelligence officer died on the way home, or from a sudden fever , or from poisoning you were afraid of our agents of central asia and our merchants, because there was a commercial competition was a military one, meanwhile the tension between st. petersburg and london is growing in the black sea region in 1817. the russian army begins to actively conquer and annex the caucasus , the influence of britain, its allies persia and the ottoman empire are losing their positions within the concept of defense. india cannot allow this, in general the british policy is now american. there is a very system here. and it consists of a lot of related

components, which at the same time, outwardly , it seems, are not connected, but on the other hand , this is all part of a rather large serious strategy. moreover, britain has always worked very actively. inside the country remember. it certainly has always been the hand of britain, which sent thousands of emissaries there. a young man descends from a british warship under the cover of night to the caucasian coast of the black sea. his name is david turgord, a 28-year-old english intelligence officer arrived in the caucasus to unite the highlanders and develop tactics for their actions against russian troops. i have seen documents in the archives and library of the board of india of the british library, from which it is clear that

shamil was given money for ammunition in order for him to fight the russians as successfully as possible. highlanders often had weapons that would be in service with the russian army in 20 years; rifled rifles; mountain guns; metal carriages ; circassian committees were created. well , just like the chechen committees were created around the council of europe. here in the recent past. i myself witnessed them with these posters, and so on there was even my own akhmed zakayev , who appropriated the exclusive role of a diplomat, some ishmael barakash. bay, he traveled to the capitals and returning to the caucasus e reported that europe tends to support us the british parliament is seriously discussing

the possibility of creating an independent state with the support of london. in the editorials of the times , the fate of india is being decided in the caucasus, and the highlanders are the last line of defense against russian aggression against the entire civilized world. they pray to the king, they pray to all the old. good england, the land of liberty, give them cannons and skillful artillerymen. if we take this right step. everything will be decided, the bears will not be able to keep the line and the brave highlander. easily teach scoundrels a lesson from the borders of hungary to the heart of burma and nepal, the russian devil relentlessly pursues and torments the entire human race and tirelessly

commits his evil faith, irritating our hardworking and exceptionally peaceful empire in exactly the same way. and in the 19th century and in the 18th century and in the 17th century russia was a barbaric wild, uh, uneducated, aggressive imperialist country, and this largely became part of the western participation of the english consciousness, therefore, russia had a good image in england uh, only twice in its entire history . e. the first time it was in 1917, and the second time in 1991. that is, at the moment when the country was disintegrating. her image in the uk in the west was exceptionally

good. the actions of britain in the caucasus could not stop the military and political advancement of russia in the black sea and the middle east, under the influence of st. petersburg , persia shah refuses the services of british military advisers and instead invites russians for london, this is a new russian challenge. and one more confirmation. russia is preparing for a campaign against british india such plans in reality did not exist, but england decides to create a buffer on the way of russia, an anti-russian coalition of the central asian states of bukhara kanda, and the border afghan herat, british intelligence groups, who are cunning in their protectorate of british intelligence in the region, are conducting detailed topographical surveys from the genusha to the priory of the british intelligence officer are sent to negotiate in the capital of the central asian

khanates served as an officer in the colony and had his own idea of ​​​​how an enlightened white man should a man to associate with uneducated local princes. he just did not take into account that bukhara is a free state under the sole authority and peace. no one was allowed to go to the central registan square of bukhara on horseback, except for the world of course, the ban, but ignored it and went to the square on horseback to his misfortune at that very moment , the world itself with numerous saints, having seen the ruler, eagerly returned. bukhara colonel

is not even an investigator. he greeted the emir, according to some data with a casual nod, according to others, this scene was seen by a hundred, or maybe be and thousands of people around the square. yes, there were numerous paws of merchants. they were seized by the russian military, who were closely following the actions of the british and reported to st. petersburg by the british. it seems that russia has not been in this region for a long time preparing the armed invasion of central asia, nor the real, like the british unprofessional

intelligence officers in 1823, the polish was convicted of participating in a secret anti-government organization. he began his service in orsk in five european languages ​​and quickly learned turkic and farsi. a few years later, he was transferred to orenburg , where he began his career as a military intelligence officer from orenburg. jan vitkevich traveled to bukhara three times, and twice there he met with merchants and ministers with local nobility. i'm trying to understand how much the influence of the british has increased. he convinced kush begi, the first minister and the world, that it was better to trade with bukhara with russia. for the first time, he heard the name of his

british counterpart, competitor alexander . the captain of artillery, a talented scout , diplomat and linguist , visited bukhara in the early thirties of the 19th century under the guise of an armenian merchant from the notes of vitkevich, kush begi frightened me that the khartsy would not go to russia , but would trade with the british, while pointing to berens, who made various proposals on this score. i replied to the cut, that it was empty, that the british under no circumstances could deliver iron to bukharians from india. copper cast iron in the business of skirting other goods that the bukharians can take the goods of chan, even less, because they are bukharians to give them cotton paper, dried fruits and other products of their land in return. push not will be taken and to sell them these works. there is nowhere except russia in 1837. exactly. jan

witkevich becomes the first russian ambassador to afghanistan translated from persian afghanistan is a strange silence. greek there aryan some chinese elements there was a synthesis of islam iranian religion. zone here are such very intense interactions. geopolitical point of view this is more than a trump, it is actually such a joker of countries that are far from us, such as the united states, britain and

others. now they are in our country and will be here as long as it is required their interest was not here. people's relations are huge afghanistan in itself means nothing; it matters in the conditions of a large region.

so it's probably the same game if it's a big game. vitkevich arrives in kabul mohammed receives a russian officer in his residence, the balakhisat is rather cool at that moment, the shah already trusts the british envoy more . it turns out that alexander, already known to vitkevich from bukhara, he became he became. very

interesting meeting december 24 alexander burns invited jan witkevich to a christmas dinner. still, a christian is not one. it was the only meeting of two intelligence officers and diplomats. after her, burns wrote in his diary that vitkevich was quite a gentleman, intelligent and well informed, loyalty told vitkevich that he had repeatedly been to kabul before that for more than 5 years, he was well acquainted with shah muhammad toast that once his sign of special respect was brought to step residence on the back of the shatsk elephant told. he also what happened before in a pinjab and once visited bukhara, vitkevich modestly remarked that he had also been to bukhara three times, apparently, he was surprised and disappointed. the fact that the russian embassy is in a kobol is incredibly disturbing for governors-general. lord okumba's india britain was of course wary of the growing

influence of russia in afghanistan and was afraid that this might affect the position of the british empire in india, and then lord auckland makes a serious mistake by sending access to muhammad, who was still in doubt. should he be friends with russia or with england, personal a letter in which he demands to expel vitkevich and never again accept foreign words without knowing the government of british india in response will give mohammed accepts vitkevich with all conceivable signs of friendship and respect between russia and afghanistan , the union treaty of the first-born is sent out a strong protest against the hostile activities of viktorovich, which seriously threatens relations between the two powers. this is almost word for word the british foreign office demanded from st. petersburg

immediately and the russian ambassador in tehran. and nikolai cannot withstand the pressure of the british; he declares vitkevich's action to be arbitrariness and withdraws russian guarantees from the agreement with dosmukhamid. russia annexes afghanistan for the first time on may 1, 1839. ivan vitkevich arrived in st. petersburg and settled in the paris hotel on malaya morskaya street with him. he brought an extensive archive of travel records to kabul bukhara and a pension. on the morning of may 9, vilkevich was found in his room, shot according to the official version. he committed suicide, among other things , because he could not bear the shame of the fact that in fact betrayed, the afghans who believed him, according to another version of vitkevich, were killed by english agents, because the entire archive of the paper intelligence officer from several huge chests disappeared without a trace

who or what killed russian officials or british spies? i think it can be said that without britain's fear of the russian advance into central asia, the british would never have entered afghanistan and the russians could inflict a military defeat on britain or get close enough to india through the afghan company decides to remove from the kabul throne loyal to mohammed to the russians and install a shah loyal to the british. the british should have understood the danger of an afghan campaign ten

years earlier, british intelligence officers to capture india wrote that it was afghanistan that was capable of burying the most carefully developed plan of any european general staff. if the afghans, as a nation, concluded konnels, decide to resist the invaders, then the difficulties of the campaign can easily become insurmountable, in principle, this has happened for 150 years. later already, true, of course, not with the russian imperial, but with the soviet army. however conole's words became a harsh prophecy for all conquerors, in general for the british in the first place. they felt it very soon. this is on itself in just a few years. during the first chapter of the afghan war, and even today for the us military in afghanistan, little has changed, their columns are still attacking from the same mountain shelters. well, except that the weapons are now, of course, modern. beef, so they don't have

a national consciousness. i think this is not true. this is not a nation in our opinion, this is not a state in our opinion, but it is state i'm at the end they're at war against a friend. they all howl spoil this foreigner december 2, 1838 british army and troops. the shah enters afghanistan they go, like the officers of one of the regiments for a light walk, only two camels were loaded with cigars in august 1839, the british troops enter the english flag when we went for the first time.

said to our man that it is easy to win in the first entrance, we won, you too well storm of the palace. it was crazy from the point of view of the military christian operation and the americans, too, in the first months perfect victory and then you and we americans made a big mistake. we tried to stay there. the british felt at home alexander, who again became a political adviser to the shah, lived in a mansion with the grief of afghan women before concerts from

steeplechase skating. burnt british troops do not come out to suppress the rebellion not in the first hours, not in the first day. shah-shu-jah is locked in balakhisar, as a result, already on november 3rd. at the end know the british got scared on january 1, 1842. after a long siege by the english military camp is an agreement, which, along with

the british, seals 18 tribal leaders on january 6, 16,000. english. of these , only 4.5 thousand military men, the rest of the women and children, camp servants, come out of kabul in india. on january 9, almost unarmed, the detachment is drawn into the course of the kobul gorge, the afghans staged a real war for the british. by the time the head of the column of refugees reached the exit from the gorge, there were still hundreds left in it. wounded, half-frozen people, no one took them away, there was no one bear only on the first day the afghans carried out more than 13 attacks, british soldiers and officers dressed in bright red uniforms. excellent, they stood out against the background of granite mountains and were excellent targets. the eyewitness wrote it was a terrible march, we walked yes, blindly illuminating the snows.

under it, the enemy and many officers and soldiers died, women and children froze to death, falling asleep on the bare ground by the end of the fifth day, two-thirds of the civilians were killed, the military by that time only 700 people were alive. soldiers officers all the way, retreating from kabul, especially in the gorge, was littered with the bodies of those killed by electro blood. most of the dead were undressed. hope was taken by the survivors, in order to somehow warm up at night and during the fierce winter service, out of 16,000 who spoke from near kabul, only one dr. brian on january 14 of israel survived and was completely exhausted by hunger. he got to the frontier of british india remember the retreat, when was the last battle of the 333rd regiment in gondomagy and the fact that virtually the entire floor was killed. so i think the first war is possible

consider it a mistake. in september, the british return to afghanistan with a punitive expedition again enters the kampul , blows up the kobul creeper, erases a row of land from the forest, robs the city of quarters and leaves the country in revenge, conquer afghanistan and bring stability to afghanistan in the 1840s . yes probably. they could decide that yes, now you can try to make bukhara and khujand dependent states and prevent russian expansion but of course britain's attempts to control afghanistan in the 1840s were disastrous and the british abandoned it, if you can't control afghanistan then march through central asia. you can only dream,

you know? after the defeat of the british in afghanistan and the peace of bukhara decided not to stand on ceremony with their english prisoners , there were already two of them in order to secretly release the colonel of stodart to bukhara. captain arthur connelly arrived, but he was also exposed and thrown into an underground prison. and the world was ready for them forgive me, but he never received a personal answer to the letter sent to the queen of england. the queen handed the answer into her hands, which greatly offended the khan. it was one more drop on the scales that decided the fate of the british intelligence officer captain arthur connelly , ironically, it was he who came up with the phrase, the big game and colonel charles toddart were executed by order and peace

in a boozer on a hot june morning of 1842. this happened quite often in the 19th century , there were imperial agents who operated far beyond the borders. empires were forced to fail so that there would be no reason in britain to send armies into central asia, several russian agents died under such circumstances, because

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