Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A wannan lokacin Rasha ta fadada daularta zuwa Asiya ta Tsakiya
, ya ci Khanates na Kokand, Bukhara, da Khiva, da kuma yankin Trans-Caspian. Ci gaban Rasha a Asiya ya haifar da fargabar Burtaniya cewa Rashawa suna shirin kai hari kan Indiya ta Burtaniya. Kafin shekara ta 1815, London ta damu cewa Napoleon zai haɗa kai da Rasha don yin hakan a yaƙin neman zaɓe guda ɗaya. Bayan 1815 London ta ji tsoron Rasha ita kaɗai za ta yi hakan mataki-mataki. Rudyard Kipling ya kira shi "Babban Wasan" kuma kalmar ta kama. Koyaya masana tarihi sun ba da rahoton cewa Rasha ba ta da niyyar yin gaba da Indiya.