the memoir states that dolgorukov used to attend gatherings of hakím ahmad gílání, where he would meet baháʼu'lláh. however, gílání died in 1835, three years before dolgorukov's arrival in the persia. there are numerous other errors relating to the dates and times of events that the memoir describes; the memoir describes events after the death of personages, or when the people involved were young children, or when they were in different parts of the world.