{"book":"adl0970","page":43,"text":"12\n\nbe deputed for this purpose? Was it not possible\nfor the Czar to nominate one of his own subjects\nfor such a responsible post? Anyway, why should\nthis minister pretend to be descended from the\nline of the ancient kings of Armenia, if it is not\nto obtain more credit for his own cause? But\nthis is the least part of the danger that threatens\nus at present. The real danger lies in the attempts\nof the Moscovites and the Armenians to have the\nwarlike and brave Georgians on their side. It\nis an open secret that they are well disposed\ntowards our enemies, and wait impatiently for\ntheir chance to assert their independence. It is\nquite obvious that they have submitted with\nreluctance to a people of different religion. Have\nwe forgotten that only a few years ago these\npeople at the instigation of Gurgin Khan rose\nagainst us? What an irony of fate, this Gurgin is\nnow a full-fledged governor of three major pro-\nvinces! Are we ignorant of the fact that his cousin,\nSanazarli, is now at the Court of St. Petersburg,\nsoliciting the Czar to assist him in the liberation of\nhis co-religionists in Georgia? Suppose for a\nmoment that they all join hands against us. Can","chars":1167,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00043.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/43","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/43","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0970/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0970_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}