According to Evangelos Venetis, Vatatzes was "an admirer of Persian civilization and of Nader Shah's rule" and an "important author for Iranian history and Hellenic-Iranian studies".
[1] Three years later, in 1716, he once again went to Shirvan and from there he travelled further to Rasht in Gilan, Qazvin, Saveh, Qom, Kashan and the Safavid royal capital of Isfahan.
[1] During his stay at Mashhad, Vatatzes delivered a message from Nader to the Russian force which occupied Rasht, commanded by General Vasily Levasov.
[1] According to the modern historian Evangelos Venetis, Vatatzes had traveled to Prussia, the Kingdom of France, the Dutch Republic, Great Britain and Denmark by 1732/3.
[1] Venetis adds that Vatatzes either wrote his manuscripts at the court of the Greek Phanariote rulers of the Danubian Principalities or they were reproduced there in large quantities after his death.
[1] Venetis adds that Vatatzes was "an admirer of Persian civilization and of Nader Shah's rule" and an "important author for Iranian history and Hellenic-Iranian studies".