Rarely seen images of female music groups in the Qajar period
As a further direct result and consequence of the Gulistan and Turkmenchay treaties of 1813 and 1828, respectively, the formerly occupied territories became part of Russia for around the next 180 years, except Dagestan, which has remained a Russian possession ever since. Out of the greater part of the territory, six separate nations would be formed through the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, namely Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and three generally unrecognized republics, Abkhazia, Artsakh, and South Ossetia, claimed by Georgia. Lastly and equally important, as a result of Russia’s imposing of the two treaties, it also decisively parted the Azerbaijanis and Talysh ever since between two nations. With the conclusion of the Akhal Treaty on September 21, 1881, Turkestan and Transoxiana ceased any claim to all parts of Turkestan and Transoxiana, setting the Atrek River as the new boundary with Imperial Russia. Hence, Merv, Sarakhs, Eshgh Abad, and the surrounding areas were transferred to Russian control under the command of General Alexander Komarov in 1884.
