In the publisher’s note it says: “…one year later, Shuster was ejected from the country, a victim of British and Russian diplomatic intrigue.”
Also – here are two interesting passages from the Foreword and Introduction to his book:
“Only the pen of a Macaulay or the brush of a Verestchagin could adequately portray the rapidly shifting scenes attending the downfall of this ancient nation – scenes in which two powerful and presumably enlightened Christian countries played fast and loose with the truth, honor, decency, and law, one, at least hesitating not even at the most barbarous cruelties to accomplish it’s political design and to put Persia beyond hope of self regeneration.”
“The Persian political affairs, fraught as they are with the misfortunes and misery for millions of innocent people, are conducted very much as a well staged drama – I have heard some critics say, as an Opera bouffe. The reader will find the same old characters weaving in and out of the political scene, at one time wearing the make-up of a Royalist Minister, at another the grab of a popular patriot.”
