Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I nga tau 1820, i mahi ia i te Caucasus ka uru ki nga pakanga ki Turkey me Persia. I whai wāhi nui ia ki te whakaekenga o Erivan
, he taone nui o Armenia i puritia e Persian, i te tau 1827 i te Pakanga Russo-Persian (1826-1828), a ka eke ki te taumata o te rangatira rangatira i te tau 1829. Whai muri i te pakanga, ka noho ia ki Tiflis i reira i noho ai tana whare rangatira e nga rangatira o te rohe, a, i te tau 1831, ko te whakaaturanga tuatahi a te iwi "Woe from Wit", he taakaro na Alexander Griboyedov, i takaro ai a Bagration i te mahi a Colonel Skalozub.