PII | S086919080023317-5-1 |
DOI | 10.31857/S086919080023317-5 |
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Occupation: Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication, Financial University, Moscow; Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS, Research Fellow Affiliation: Financial University, Moscow
Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
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Journal name | Vostok. Afro-Aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost |
Edition | Issue 6 |
Pages | 124-135 |
Abstract | Based on materials from the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (Moscow), the article analyzes the events of 1861 associated with the first departure of a Russian trade caravan from Kyakhta to Beijing after a hundred-year break. The named caravan was sent at the initiative of the Kyakhta mayor Despot-Zenovich. The fifth article of the recently concluded Russian-Chinese Beijing Treaty of 1860 served as the legal basis for sending. According to the plan of Despot-Zenovich, the caravan was to follow the route Kyakhta – Urga – Dushikou outpost – Beijing. However, as subsequent events showed, the Chinese side interpreted the fifth article of the treaty in such a way that the open caravan trade in Beijing remained inaccessible to the Russians. Contradictions in the interpretation of the fifth article resulted in a series of negotiations in Beijing between dignitaries from the Zongli Yamen and the head of the XIV Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, Archimandrite Gurius (Karpov). At one of these meetings with Gurius, Chinese dignitaries expressed the opinion that in connection with the struggle of court cliques under the Manchu emperor, the Chinese side could not grant direct permission for trade to the Russians and bargaining was possible only unofficially. As a result, a compromise solution was the sending of a Russian caravan from Zhangjiakou to Tianjin. The article cites reports from Archimandrite Gury (Karpov) to the director of the Asiatic Department, Egor Petrovich Kovalevsky. A number of materials are cited for the first time. |
Keywords | Peking Treaty, Gury (Karpov), N.P. Ignatiev, Despot-Zenovich, Prince Gong, Russian-Chinese relations, archive |
Received | 26.12.2022 |
Publication date | 31.12.2022 |
Number of characters | 36434 |
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