Moritz von Kotzebue

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In 1817, Moritz von Kotzebue, son of the famous German playwright August von Kotzebue, traveled to Persia in the cortège of a Russian embassy sent to the encampment of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah at Solṭānīya. Moritz von Kotzebue, then a young lieutenant in Russian service, kept a very informative journal of this embassy, which was soon afterwards published by his father in Weimar. The embassy left Tbilisi in mid-April 1917 and arrived in Tabrīz on the 18 May, where the czar’s envoy was received by ʿAbbās Mīrzā (q.v.), the crown prince. Kotzebue gave a very valuable description of the audience with the crown prince (Kotzebue, tr., pp. 153-74). After eight days, the embassy left Tabrīz for Solṭānīya via Zanjān. The envoys reached their destination on the 26 July 1817 and Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah eventually received the embassy at the 31 July 1817 (Kotzebue, tr., p. 262). At the end of August 1817, the embassy left the shah’s encampment and traveled back to Russia by way of Tabrīz and Erivan (Kotzebue, tr., pp. 319-27).

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