opponents of the faith base much of their amplification and exaggeration of these "ties" on a document, allegedly a "memoir" of dolgorukov (also known as dolgoruki), who was the russian ambassador to persia from 1846 to 1854. the memoir states that dolgorukov created the bábí and baháʼí religions so as to weaken iran and shiʻa islam. the document was first published in 1943 in persian in mashhad, and shortly thereafter published again in tehran with some of the most glaring errors corrected. the book still, however, contains so many historical errors that it is inconceivable that it is genuine.