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Nerchinsk
Nerchinsk , city, SE Siberian Russia. Founded in 1654, the city was a Russian outpost in E Asia from the 17th to the 19th cent. A Russo-Chinese border treaty signed at Nerchinsk in 1689 was the first treaty concluded between China and a European power; it granted the Transbaykalia area to Russia and... Read more
Ch'ing
Ch'ing or Manchu , the last of the Imperial dynasties of China. Background The Ch'ing dynasty was established by the Manchus , who invaded China and captured Beijing in 1644, and lasted until 1911. The term Ch'ing means "pure," and it was used to add legitimacy to an alien rule. T... Read more
Siberia
Siberia , Rus. Sibir, vast geographical region of Russia, covering c.2,900,000 sq mi (7,511,000 sq km) and having an estimated population (1992) of 32,459,000. Historically it has had no official standing as a political or territorial division, but it was generally understood to comprise the north... Read more

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Nerchinsk, Treaty of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History NERCHINSK, TREATY OF The Treaty of Nerchinsk was a Sino-Russian peace treaty negotiated and signed at the Siberian border point of Nerchinsk in August and September 1689. Armed conflict in the Far East...
Nerchinsk
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Nerchinsk , city, SE Siberian Russia. Founded...Russo-Chinese border treaty signed at Nerchinsk in 1689 was the first treaty concluded...Russian trading caravans to go to Beijing; Nerchinsk became an important customs and trade...
Kaplan, Fanya
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...bomb-making operation in Kiev, she spent ten years in the Nerchinsk penal complex in Siberia. Here she became acquainted with...maintain that Kaplan went blind during her early years in Nerchinsk but partially recovered her vision in 1913; one memoirist...
Ch'ing
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...by suppressing rebellions (1673-81) and defeating the Mongols and Tibetans. In 1689 the Ch'ing signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia, demarcating the northern extent of the Manchurian boundary at the Argun River. When Jesuit missionaries appeared...
Muscovy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...state system and its diplomatic hierarchy, Muscovy remained ceremonially if not operationally aloof, but with the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689, it became the first European state to make a formal agreement with China. church and culture Muscovy's church...
Imperial Expansion, Russia
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...thousand armed men in eastern Siberia, the Chinese state recognized the bulk of Russia's eastern conquests in the Treaty of Nerchinsk. In the west, protracted wars and treaty negotiations defined the process of Russian expansion. In contrast to other expansion...
Sofiia Alekseevna (16571704; Ruled 16821689)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...the favorite, made the final decisions. Sofiia maintained peace with Sweden, and her emissaries negotiated the treaty of Nerchinsk with China, setting the border in Siberia for the next century and a half. After complex negotiations, Russia joined the...
Khabarov, Yerofei Pavlovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...their advantage. Nonetheless, Russia and China would engage in many frontier struggles until the signing of the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689). Meanwhile, word of Khabarov's cruel treatment of the Daurs reached Russian authorities, and he was arrested...
China, Relations with
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...settlements along the Amur, led to military clashes between Russian and Chinese forces in the 1680s. In 1689, the Treaty of Nerchinsk, the first modern international treaty between China and a European country, began to define a boundary between the two...
Aigun, Treaty of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...period of decline. In the late 1840s, after more than a century of stable relations with China, governed by the Treaties of Nerchinsk (1689) and Kiakhta (1728), Russia renewed its eastward expansion under the leadership of Nikolai Muraviev, the governor...

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Nerchinsk, Treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Nerchinsk, Treaty of (1689) A treaty between Russia and China signed at Nerchinsk, a town in Russia. It was the first treaty China signed with a western power. Drawn up in Latin by Jesuits from the Chinese emperor KANGXI's court, the treaty...
Gmelin, Johann Georg
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Mongolian) frontier at Kyakhta. In 1735 they thoroughly explored the Transbaikal region proceeding through Selenginsk and Nerchinsk, then along the Lena River to the north. In September 1735 they reached Yakutsk (130 ° east) from which they undertook...
Kangxi
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...personally leading a campaign into Outer MONGOLIA (1693). He opened certain ports to overseas traders and the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689), established diplomatic contact with Russia. In 1692 he permitted Catholic missionaries to make converts and he...

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An American perspective on Russian gold specimens.
Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...drawers, and not considered further. Nerchinsk Gold was initially recovered as a byproduct of the ores at Nerchinsk in the Transbaikal (i.e., east...the two specimens in the database from Nerchinsk was not located, and the other is clearly...
The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor: A Siberian Memoir, 1869-1954
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Siberian steppe to Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Aksha, Nerchinsk Zavod, and Corny Zerentui, all places where Bek had lived...and a strike whose consequences involve being exiled back to Nerchinsk Zavod in 1901 by the tsarist government. This was just one...
The Russian Far East: A History.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...first penetration into the Amur valley to the signing of the Nerchinsk Treaty, are dealt with in a mere six pages. Everything seems...to peacefully negotiate the Russians out of Priamur in the Nerchinsk Treaty rather than drive them out with armed force -- the...
Police discover arsenal in Russian garden.
News Wire article from: UPI Energy Resources; 10/13/2009; 427 words ; ...his vegetable garden, said police now guarding the site in Nerchinsk. The munitions, which included mines and grenades, allegedly...fire at a military ammunition storehouse outside the town of Nerchinsk in the Zabaikalsky Territory of east Siberia, the RIA Novosti...
Russian gold: an overview.
Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...had no way to extricate it. In 1714, while working in the Nerchinsk mines in the Transbaikal, Ivan Mokeyev, an accomplished...mines, especially Zmeinogorsk, was very similar to that from Nerchinsk, and he suggested that these carried gold and silver. Analyses...
Russia: China miner invests $500m in Russian iron.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 7/30/2009; 700+ words ; ...the biggest steel factory in the Far East of Russia. The Russian side has every reason to support the project, considering Nerchinsk where the mine is located is an underdeveloped region in Russia with a small population of 100,000 but with abundant iron...
Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontiers. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...in the Far East and essential linchpin of the contemporary international balance of power." Going back to the Treaty of Nerchinsk and then up through the Karakhan Declaration, Paine documents the interactions between the Chinese and the Russians and in...
The End of Hong Kong, the Secret Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...is the sovereign in Hong Kong, has wider implications barely mentioned. The Chinese also regard the vital 1689 treaty of Nerchinsk as invalid. In it the Emperor ceded to Russia what are now the lands of the Russian Far East. Somechinese maps show Vladivostok...
Siberia and Sobranies The past can't always be recaptured - sometimes it has gone for good, says Anne Applebaum
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/26/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...contemporary of Trotsky, studied and grew attracted to the revolutionary socialism that drew in many young men at the time; Nerchinsk, where Manya was born, a distant East Siberian town which was largely populated by the indigenous Buryats. Most memorably...
The uncertain future: Sino-Russian relations in the twenty-first century.(Company overview)
Magazine article from: Demokratizatsiya; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Treaty on Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation. (2) As in previous treaties, (e.g., the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk, the 1858 Treaty of Aigun, and the 1860 Treaty of Beijing), this agreement between China and Russia was driven primarily...