Diplomat and Reformer S.L. Vladislavich-Raguzinsky: “...Eternal Peace Was Concluded and the Border Was Approved”

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The authors consider the period of stay of Count Sava Lukich Vladislavich-Raguzinsky, from 1725 until 1728, in Eastern Siberia during and after his diplomatic mission to the Qing Empire. His role in the expansion and strengthening of Russia’s influence on the eastern borders is established. Particular attention is paid to the issue of streamlining relations between the local administration and the indigenous population, the restoration of bilateral trade between Russia and China, the arrangement of the border and trade territories, the organization of missionary activities of the Orthodox clergy in Siberia and the Qing Empire. All this significantly influenced the development of the peoples and territories of the region during the process of Russia’s expansion in the east, the change of its role in Russia's foreign policy in the Far East. Nowadays, especially relevant is the provision written by the ally of Peter the Great in the Treaty of Kyakhta that between Russia and China “peace should be sustainable and eternal” and the interstate border should become peaceful at all times.

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Larisa Viktorovna Zandanova

Irkutsk State University

Author for correspondence.
Email: zandanova@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2063-8568

Dr. Habil. Hist., Professor, Head of the Department of General History and Methods, Pedagogical Institute

1, K. Marx Str., Irkutsk, 664003, Russia

Nikolay Nikolaevich Puzynya

Irkutsk State University

Email: stazirovka@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7321-1157

Dr. Habil. Hist., Professor of the Department of General History and Methods, Pedagogical Institute

1, K. Marx Str., Irkutsk, 664003, Russia

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