Armenia: A year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia
CHAPTER XIV.
Impassable Character of the Country.--Dependence of Persia on the Czar.--Russian Aggrandizement.--Delays of the Western Powers.--Russian Acquisitions from Turkey and Persia.--Oppression of the Russian Government.--The Conscription.--Armenian Emigration.--The Armenian Patriarch.--Latent Power of the Pope.--Anomalous Aspect of religious Questions 178