Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan

Negotiations. Peace negotiations were precipitated by military events, specifically the storming of Lankaran by General Pyotr Kotlyarevsky on 1 January 1813. British mediation made it possible for the two sides to negotiate a peace treaty. The war had become financially and humanly costly, leading both governments to see substantial potential in trade clauses, resulting in a decade of relative peace from 1813 to 1826.

Terms. The treaty confirmed the ceding and inclusion of Dagestan, eastern Georgia, most of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and parts of northern Armenia from Iran into the Russian Empire. These territories, formerly part of Iran north of the Aras River, came under Russian control. The treaty was the first in a series forcing Persia to cede formerly Iranian territories.