Record

Document Reference	Bu 19/19
Title	Letter from 10th Baron Napier [F. Napier], Berlin, Prussia, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 4 May 1865.
Date	4 May 1865
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Discusses progress with the Duchies; informs him that the Austrians have agreed to the Prussian proposal in principle; speculates on possible outcomes and the long term opinion of Bismarck; comments on the distress felt by the Emperor and Empress of Russia [due to the death Nikolai]; brief comment on a book being written about the 'plague'.
Term	military campaigns, Second Schleswig-Holstein War 1863-4
Term	bereavement

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA140	Bismarck; Otto E.L. von (1815-1898); Prince; German statesman and Prussian minister-president	1815-1898
NA6720	Nikolai (1843-1865); Grand Duke Tsesarevitch	1843-1865
NA6192	Alexander II (1818-1881); Emperor of all the Russias; (succeeded 1855)	1818-1881
NA6598	Maria Alexandrovna (1824-1880); Empress of all the Russias; (wife of Alexander II)	1824-1880
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