00:00The Treaty of Nurtchinsk was an important peace treaty concluded between the Qing Empire and Russia, bearing the
00:04border of this beyond Lake Baikal.
00:07Signed on September 6, 1689 (August 27 of the Julian calendar), in the small town of Nurtchinsk, it delimits the border
00:14between China and Russia in Siberia, and puts an end to a military conflict whose stakes were the
00:19Amur River region.
00:20Signatory
00:21Nurtchinsk is the first treaty signed between China and a European power.
00:24The Russian signatory was Vasily Golitsyn, acting on behalf of the regent Sofia Alexeyevna, half-sister of the future Peter.
00:31the Great, and on the Chinese side Songotu, acting on behalf of the Qing Emperor, Kangxi.
00:36Two Jesuits close to the Kangxi Emperor, the French astronomer Jean-François Gerbillon and the Portuguese musician Thomas Pereira, accompanied
00:43the Chinese delegation as advisors and interpreters.
00:46They took an active part in the negotiations. 3. The treaty was translated into five languages: Russian, Manchu, the
00:52Chinese, Mongolian and Latin, with the two Jesuits, Jean-François Gerbillon and Thomas Pereira, as translators.
00:59By virtue of this treaty, Russia relinquished access to the Sea of Japan, but established trade relations
01:05with China.
01:06The Russian fortress of Albazin, which had been a source of conflict between Russia and China, is abandoned.
01:11and shaved.
01:12The border established between Russia and China was to follow the Stanovoi Mountains and the Argun River.
01:17The treaty clauses were revised, in favor of Russia, by the Gains Treaty of 1858 and the
01:22the Treaty of Peking of 1860, which fixed the Russo-Chinese border more or less as it is today.
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