truchmenes

Updated: May 24, 2025

As early as the second half of the eighteenth century, John Anthony Guldenstædt, a Russian doctor, had visited Astrakhan, and Kisliar on the Terek, at the most remote boundary of the Russian possessions, entered Georgia, where the Czar Heraclius received him with great respect, and penetrated to Tiflis and the country of the Truchmenes, finally arriving at Imeritia.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century