| Peter the Great's capture of Rasht | |||||||||
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| Part of the Russo-Persian War (1722-1723) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Russian Empire |
 Safavid Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Peter the Great Colonel Shipov F.I. Soimonov |
Tahmasp II | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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Two battalions of regular troops. Caspian Flotilla | 15,000 untrained and inadequately armed troops, levied mostly from peasantry.[2] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| [citation needed] | About or over 1,000[1][3] | ||||||||
Peter the Great's capture of Rasht (also spelled Resht), occurred between December 1722 and late March 1723 amidst the successful spree of campaigns of Peter the Great during the Russo-Persian War (1722-1723). The capture of Rasht brought the Caspian Sea town alongside the rest of Gilan into Russian possession for a decade, until the Treaty of Resht of 1732, when they would be returned.
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- ^ Langaroudi, EIr; Langaroudi, R. Rezazadeh (2009). "GĪLĀN vi. History in the 18th century". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. X, Fasc. 6. pp. 642–645.
- ^ William Bayne Fisher,P. Avery,G. R. G. Hambly,C. Melville. The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 7 Cambridge University Press, 10 okt. 1991 ISBN 0521200954 p 318