Russia’s commerce and navigation treaties with England, the Netherlands and Tuscany in the 1840s
Russia’s commerce and navigation treaties with England, the Netherlands and Tuscany in the 1840s

Summary/Abstract: In order to increase the participation of the Russian Empire in international trade circulation, the Russian authorities decided in the 1840s to sign a number of international agreements of a commercial or navigational nature. These treaties include, among others, the agreements detailed in the present article, concluded with the governments of Great Britain, the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The first of the above agreements was concluded with England, which took place on 11 January 1843. Subsequently, the Russians signed trade and shipping agreements with the Netherlands (13 September 1846) and Tuscany (10 April 1847). In practice, these treaties conferred on both contracting parties the status of their most privileged partners in their economic activities. According to the author of the text, the revival of Russia’s commercial relations with Europe was intended to achieve the modernisation of the Tsarist empire through participation in foreign trade, which would in turn boost, by way of competition, the modernisation of the state.

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