Author: Nesselrode, K.
Title: Als by Russian Statesman Karl Nesselrode to Sixth Viscount Strangford, Percy Smithe
Description: Lemberg (Lviv): By the author, 1823. Softcover. Autograph letter signed; 12 1/4 x 7 3/4; two loose sheets, glued to each other at the spine; pp. [4], text to pp. 1 only; a few minor spots and slight curling to lower margin only; very good or better condition. In French. Count Karl Robert Nesselrode (1780 – 1862) was a Russian Foreign Minister for 40 years, a State Secretary, and a leading European conservative statesman of the Holy Alliance. In 1824, he negotiated with the United States the defining of the boundary between Russian America (Russian colonial possessions spanning parts of present day California, Alaska, and Hawaii between 1733 and 1867) and the Oregon Country, which would be resolved with the Russo-American Treaty of 1824. He also signed the Treaty of Paris that would end the Crimean War. Nesselrode would also be remembered for managing to penetrate Japan's self-isolation, which would result in the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda, aka Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and Russia - the first treaty between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan in 1855. Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (1780 - 1855) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat and Ambassador to Portugal (1806), Sweden (1817), Turkey (1820), and Russia (1825). While in Constantinople, he was charged with the sole care of Russian affairs in Turkey. The letter, written in French by Nesselrode, asked for Smythe's aide in obtaining a firman (a royal mandate by the sovereign of the Ottoman Empire) for travel authorization for, then, Councillor of State M. de Minciaky, to Constantinople. Though not mentioned in the document, the purpose of Minciaky's trip was to mediate negotiations and, possibly, a meeting between the governments of Greece and Turkey, which at the time were embroiled in the Greek War of Independence (1821 - 1832). Ill.: 0. 2.

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