State Charter of Peter I On the Acceptance of the Armenian People Under the Protection of the Russian State and Their Resettlement from Karabakh to Newly Acquired Persian Provinces November 10, 1724

State Charter of Peter I On the Acceptance of the Armenian People Under the Protection of the Russian State and Their Resettlement from Karabakh to Newly Acquired Persian Provinces November 10, 1724

Peter the Great interrogating Tsarevich Alexey Petrovich at Peterhofby Nikolay Ge www.saint-petersburg.com On November 10, 1724, by order of His Imperial Majesty, two state charters of equal authority were dispatched from the State College of Foreign Affairs to the Armenian people, containing the following message, as recorded in the protocol of the same date: By the grace of God, We, Peter the First, Emperor and Autocrat of All Russia, etc., et…