Treaty of Aigun

Sino-Russian relations

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Chinese history

role of Muravyov

  • In Nikolay Nikolayevich Amursky, Graf Muravyov

    …the tsar, he concluded the Treaty of Aigun with China (1858). This pact recognized the Amur as the boundary between Russia and China and greatly expanded Russian territory in Siberia. For his role Muravyov was granted the title of Count Amursky. The peninsula on which Vladivostok lies still bears his…

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terms

  • China, c. 1902
    In unequal treaty

    …signed a separate agreement, the Treaty of Aigun (May 16, 1858), by which Russia would have jurisdiction over the lands north of the Amur River from its junction with the Argun River to the Tatar Strait, China would control the lands south of the Amur from the Argun to the…

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