Russian Empire
Tsar Alexander I set out to conquer Baku during the Russo-Persian War during which Pavel Tsitsianov tried to capture Baku on January 1806. But aide-de-camp and cousin of Huseyngulu khan suddenly shot Tsitsianov to death during the presentation of the city’s keys to him. Left without a commander, the Russian Army left Baku and the occupation of Baku Khanate was delayed for a year. Baku was captured on October of the same year and eventually absorbed into the Russian Empire after the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813.
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