Record

Document Reference	Bu 48/23
Title	Copy letter from Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Baltic Provinces, Russia, to 2nd Earl Granville [G. Leveson-Gower], Foreign Office, London; 11 Nov 1870.
Date	11 November 1870
Level	Piece
Content Description	Reports that the Austrian minister has been told he has to wait a few days to see Prince Gorchakov; the Austrian minister received a telegram from Count Beust, explaining that delay is due to the Russian Circular having been received at Vienna; fortunately for Count Beust, Count Chotek was thus prevented from reading a despatch to Prince Gorchakov in which he stated that he could support Russia's views regarding the Christian populations of Turkey, but not those regarding the Black Sea.
Term	treaties, Treaty of Paris 1856, Russian repudiation
Term	Turkish affairs, 'Eastern Question'

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA141	Gorchakov; Alexander M. (1798-1883); Prince; Russian Foreign Minister	1798-1883
NA6571	Beust; Friedrich F. von (1809-1886); Count; Austrian politician	1809-1886
NA6956	Chotek; B. (fl 1869-1870); Count	fl 1869-1870
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