Record

Document Reference	Bu 16/45
Title	Letter from 10th Baron Napier [F. Napier], St Petersburg, Russia, to Sir A. Buchanan; 3 Mar 1864.
Date	3 March 1864
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Refers to reports about divisions within the royal family and the 'delusions of the poor Queen'; expects these to have been exaggerated but must be based on an element of truth; the Russians intend to keep England and France apart; suggests that the fleet in Copenhagen may be used to protect the King of Denmark against his own parliament rather than Denmark from Germany; encloses a copy of a pamphlet [not present] on the Polish question; had news from Mr Milintine about the position of the peasantry; the peasants are all to be turned into freeholders; it seems that England will soon be the only country in which the labourer does not own his land and if he wished to do so, he must go to Canada; comments in general on the position of labourers in Europe and the Russian Emancipation Act [of the serfs].
Term	feudalism, serfs, emancipation of in Russia
	civil disorder, Polish Rebellion 1863
	occupations and professions, labourer
	land, reform
	emigration

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6150	Christian IX (1818-1906 ); King of Denmark; (succeeded 1863)	1818-1906
NA6608	Milyutin; D.A. (1816-1912); Count; Russian Minister of War; general	1816-1912
NA6390	Napier; Francis (1819-1898); 10th Baron Napier; succeeded 1834 also Baron Ettrick from 1872 diplomat	1819-1898
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882