Record

Document Reference	Bu 48/105
Title	Copy letter from Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia, to 2nd Earl Granville [G.Leveson-Gower], Foreign Office, London; 28 Dec 1870.
Date	28 December 1870
Level	Piece
Content Description	Reports that he has learnt the General Ignatiev has sent a letter to Aali Pasha showing that as far back as 1859 Austria, France and Prussia encouraged Russia to seek a revision of the Treaty of Paris of 1856; he has been told that there are written proposals in the Russian Foreign Office, according to which France would assist Russia in annexing Galicia and obtaining a revision of the Treaty in return for co-operation in France's war with Austria in 1859.
Term	treaties, Treaty of Paris 1856, Russian repudiation
Term	military campaigns, Austrian War with France and Piedmont 1859

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6797	Mehemet E. Aali Pasha; - (1815-1871); -; Turkish statesman	1815-1871
NA1901	Napoléon III (1808-1873); Emperor of the French; president of 2nd French Republic 1850-52 emperor 1852-70	1808-1873
NA6100	Elliot; Henry G. (1817-1907); Sir	1817-1907
NA6704	Ignatieff; Nikolai P. (1832-1908); Count; general and diplomat	1832-1908
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA6137	Gower; Granville G. Leveson- (1815-1891); 2nd Earl Granville; diplomat M.P. statesman	1815-1891