Record

Document Reference	Bu 35/ 1-17
Title	Copy letters from A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia, to the Foreign Office, London and other correspondents; 1844-9.
Date	1844-1849
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Contents refer to trade, the economy and Tariffs; following the war between Turkey and Russia there was a question as to what would happen to the so called 'rebels', or refugees; the Czar was adamant that they should be expelled from the Porte; Buchanan assisted Stratford Canning and Lord Palmerston in defence of the refugees and negotiations with the other european powers; brief mention of the Danish constitutional question.
Term	trade, Russian
	constitutions, Danish
	military campaigns, refugees
	military campaigns, Russo-Ottoman War 1828-9
	economy, Russian

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA142	Gordon; George Hamilton- (1784-1860); 4th Earl of Aberdeen	1784-1860
NA6131	Dawkins; Clinton G. (fl 1844-1853); Mr	fl 1844-1853
NA143	Temple; Henry John (1784-1865); 3rd Viscount Palmerston; succ. 1802; statesman; Prime Minster 1855-1858 and 1859-1865	1784-1865
NA6058	Nesselrode; Karl R. (1780-1862); Count; Russian Foreign Minister	1780-1862
NA5991	Canning; Stratford (1786-1880); 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe	1786-1880