Russian intervention in Iran on the materials of the Russian conservative press (spring - summer 1909)
The article is devoted to the consideration of the right periodical press on the subject of the Russian rightists' attitude to the beginning of the military intervention in Iran in 1909. The development of the Iranian Revolution events of 1905-1911, and especially the participation of Russian troops in it, was widely discussed by the public of the Russian Empire. In the conditions of the growing anti-Shah actions of the Persian constitutionalists, the Russian government in the spring and summer of 1909 decided to send military forces to Iran to protect Russian institutions and citizens. Conservatives expressed their own position on the issue of military intervention in revolutionary events on the pages of their own periodicals, such as “Zemshchina”, “Russkoe Znamya”, “Kievlyanin”, etc., widely covering the state of affairs in Iran. After analyzing the articles published in the spring - summer of 1909 in conservative press, the author comes to the conclusion, that the beginning of the military intervention in Iran was positively received by the Russian rightists. However, the intervention was accompanied by a number of political problems, in relation to which the extreme rightists and nationalists didn't always take an unambiguous position. The extreme rightists were dissatisfied with the entire foreign policy course of Russia in the Middle East, expressed in its pro-British orientation and the indecisive actions of the Russian government. The nationalists, while generally supporting the policy of non-intervention, nevertheless agreed with the need to send Russian troops to Iran in order to protect the economic interests of the Russian Empire and its citizens. At the same time, the Russian right-wingers showed a unified negative attitude towards Russian diplomacy in the context of the Iranian crisis.