The monograph is devoted to the history of the development of international relations in the Northeast Caucasus in the 18th - first third of the 19th centuries, when contradictions intensified in the region not only between traditionally rival regional powers (Russia, Iran, Turkey), but also the policy of European states - England and France. Unlike previous works, the monograph studied the question of the plans of the European powers in the Caucasus-Caspian region as a whole. The book is designed both for specialists and for everyone who is interested in the history of the Caucasus.