Record

Document Reference	Bu 48/21
Title	Copy letter from Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia, to 2nd Earl Granville [G. Leveson-Gower], Foreign Office, London; 10 Nov 1870.
Date	10 November 1870
Level	Piece
Content Description	Reports that M. Thiers has stated to Prince Gorchakov that if Russia had offered to march 300,000 men against Prussia, he might have been tempted to make some kind of concession in return; it is believed that Russia would only have to name the concession it wanted; Prince Gorchakov told M. Thiers that he has no authority to speak to him of the future.
Term	treaties, Treaty of Paris 1856, Russian repudiation
Term	armies, Russian

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA141	Gorchakov; Alexander M. (1798-1883); Prince; Russian Foreign Minister	1798-1883
NA6192	Alexander II (1818-1881); Emperor of all the Russias; (succeeded 1855)	1818-1881
NA6558	Thiers; Louis A. (1797-1877); Monsieur; French statesman and historian	1797-1877
NA6041	Lyons; Richard B.P. (1817-1887); 1st Earl Lyons; 2nd Baron Lyons cr. viscount 1881 and earl 1887; diplomat	1817-1887
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