dolgorukov actually only became aware of the bábí movement in 1847, three years after it started, and his dispatches show that he was initially afraid of the movement spreading into the caucasus, and asked that the báb be moved away from the russian border. in 1852, after a failed assassination attempt against the shah for which the entire bábí community was blamed, many bábís, including baháʼu'lláh, who had no role in the attempt and later severely condemned it, were arrested in a sweep. when baháʼu'lláh was jailed by the shah, his family went to mírzá majid ahi who was married to a sister of baháʼu'lláh, and was working as the secretary to the russian legation in tehran. baháʼu'lláh's family asked mírzá majid to go to dolgorukov and ask him to intercede on behalf of baháʼu'lláh, and dolgorukov agreed.