Çar I. Aleksandr Döneminde Rusya’nın Azerbaycan’da İşgalcilik Siyaseti
Occupational Politics of Russian in Azerbaijan During I. Alexander Period

Summary/Abstract: From the era of Tsar Petro I until today, migrating south for the winter (so to speak) has always been the main target of Russian foreign policy. In doing this, Russia was well aware that it first needed to take claim over the South Caucasus. This, however, had faced strong opposition by both the Ottomans and by Iran/Persia, who had dominated certain areas of the region. Nevertheless, Petro I's policy of invading the south was also the main target of the tsars, and within a hundred years, the entire South Caucasus had fallen under Russian domination. Due to its geographical location, Azerbaijan was occupied during the reign of Alexander I. Therefore, in this study the occupation activities of Tsarist Russia in Azerbaijan and the resulting Russian-Iranian conflicts have been evaluated based on Russian resources from that period. Therefore, we feel that published narratives, memoirs, travel notes, and history books are of importance in terms of learning about Russian policies both over the South Caucasus as a whole and, more specifically, over the Azerbaijani khanates.

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