Treaty of Peking
China-Russia [1860]
Also known as: Treaty of Beijing
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- role of Ignatyev
- In Nikolay Pavlovich, Count Ignatyev
…and succeeded in negotiating the Treaty of Peking (1860). In that treaty China recognized Russia as master of all the lands on the left bank of the Amur River as well as of those between the Ussuri River and the Pacific Ocean, thereby allowing Russia to construct the city of…
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history of
- China
- In China: The anti-foreign movement and the second Opium War (Arrow War)
…his mediatory effort, the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing, which confirmed the Treaty of Aigun and ceded to Russia the territory between the Ussuri and the sea.
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- Russia
- In Russia: Foreign policy
In 1860, by the Treaty of Beijing, Russia acquired from China a long strip of Pacific coastline south of the mouth of the Amur and began to build the naval base of Vladivostok. In 1867 the Russian government sold Alaska to the United States for \$7.2 million. The Treaty…
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