Record

Document Reference	Bu 48/53
Title	Copy letter from Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia, to 2nd Earl Granville [G. Leveson-Gower], Foreign Office, London; 22 Nov 1870.
Date	22 November 1870
Level	Piece
Content Description	Reports that he has heard it said that Prince Gorchakov has acted as he has, out of a wish to satisfy the passionate desire of the Emperor to escape from a dishonourable obligation; the Emperor had declared that he could not die in peace until this stain was wiped out; the time was now right; has heard from one source that the Russian ministers became carried away by their emotions, and from another that they believed it useless to oppose the Emperor.
Term	treaties, Treaty of Paris 1856, Russian repudiation

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
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