The relations between the Russian commander and…

April 1769 CE

The relations between the Russian commander and Heraclius are subjected to greater strain in April 1770, when the Russo-Georgian army marches against Akhaltsikhe, the Ottoman stronghold in Georgia.

Totleben suddenly shows reluctance to engage in battle and abandons the king on the battlefield.

While the battle rages between the Georgians and Turks, Totleben marches to Tiflis and allies himself with a party of oppositionist Georgian nobles to stage a coup.

However, Heraclius' victory over the Turks at the Battle of Aspindza makes this plan unrealizable.

The Russian government sends Captain Yazykov to investigate the affair, but Totleben had already crossed into Imereti, western Georgia, where he acts more energetically.

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Akhalts'ikhe > Lomsia Georgia View →

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Catherine the Great View → Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben View → Heraclius II of Georgia View →

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Georgians View → Russians (East Slavs) View → Crimean Tatars View → Crimean Khanate View → Turkish people View → Ottoman Empire View → Cossacks, Don View → Russian Empire View →

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Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) View →

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