Record

Document Reference	Bu 48/43
Title	Copy letter from Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia, to 2nd Earl Granville [G. Leveson-Gower], Foreign Office, London; 19 Nov 1870.
Date	19 November 1870
Level	Piece
Content Description	Hopes that the British Government will suspend any plans to take military precautions against use of force by Russia for another week; the Russian organisation of reserve forces will not come into operation until 1872; Colonel Blane should be able to explain the increased number of recruits which is about to be ordered for 1870; hopes that Russia will not carry out the declaration without consent of the other powers.
Term	treaties, Treaty of Paris 1856, Russian repudiation
Term	armies, Russian

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6747	Blane; Robert (-1871); Colonel; military attaché in St Petersburg	-1871
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