The policy of the Russian military authorities in the western Caspian region on the modernization of natural and economic resources (1722–1735)

Introduction. After the victory in the Northern War, Peter I decided to implement his eastern project to annex the Caspian provinces of Persia, which, in fact, became the beginning of a complex and lengthy process of annexing the Caucasian region to the Russian Empire. Control over the Trans-Caucasian trade route and protectionist measures were intended to ensure intensive growth of Russian-Transcaucasian trade and economic relations.