The Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813, one of the many wars between the Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, begins like many wars as a territorial dispute.
The Persian king, Fath Ali Shah Qajar, wants to consolidate the northernmost reaches of his Qajar dynasty by securing land near the Caspian Sea's southwestern coast (modern Azerbaijan) and the Transcaucasus (modern Georgia and Armenia).
Like his Persian counterpart, the Russian czar Alexander I is also new to the throne and equally determined to control the disputed territories.
