Record

Document Reference	Bu 48/90
Title	Incomplete copy letter from Sir Andrew Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia, to 2nd Earl Granville [G. Leveson-Gower], Foreign Office, London; 5 Dec 1870.
Date	5 December 1870
Level	Piece
Content Description	Reports that the municipality of St Petersburg has voted a sum of 1,000,000 roubles to the Russian Government as a contribution towards building warships in the Black Sea; some newspapers have followed their example; the Russian government has refused these offers.
Term	treaties, Treaty of Paris 1856, Russian repudiation
	press, Russian
	navies, Russian

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
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