Evfimi Vasilievich Putyatin

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Evfimi Wasiljewitsch Putyatin

Evfimi Wassiljewitsch Putjatin ( russ Евфимий Васильевич Путятин , scientific transliteration Evfimij Vasil'evič Putjatin ; born November 20, 1803 in Saint Petersburg ; † October 28, 1883 in Paris ) was a Russian admiral , statesman and diplomat .

In the 1850s, Russia - like the USA - strove to open up Japan and commissioned Admiral Putyatin with a corresponding expedition to the Far East, which set sail with the frigate Pallada from Kronstadt in 1852 and led it to Japan via Africa and China.

Start of trade relations with Japan

Admiral Putyatin left Kronstadt on October 7, 1852 and reached Nagasaki on August 21, 1853 , the only port that was open to foreign traffic, more precisely, for China and the Netherlands, and began negotiations. These dragged on because the governor in Nagasaki always had to send messengers to Edo to obtain instructions from the Tokugawa shogunate .

In the meantime, Admiral Perry had come to Japan for the second time with his fleet after 1853 and, as in the previous year, had headed for Edo directly, this time with steamships. Japan, so pressured, agreed to negotiations that led to the conclusion of the Treaty of Kanagawa on March 31, 1854 . Putyatin, who had visited Shanghai and the Philippines in the meantime , now went to Edo and was able to conclude the treaty of Shimoda and Japan on February 7, 1855 on the Russian side .

Putyatin had taken the official and writer Ivan Goncharov with him as secretary , who after the trip in 1858 published a report entitled The Frigate Pallada . In the book, he humorously depicts the encounter between imperial Russia and - outwardly - rural Japan, including diplomatic difficulties.

bibliography

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Putiatin, Evimil Vasil'evich . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1240.
  • Edgar Franz: Philipp Franz Von Siebold and Russian Policy and Action on Opening Japan to the West in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. German Institute for Japanese Studies. Judicium Verlag, Munich, 2005, ISBN 3-89129-871-4
  • Гончаров И. А. - «Фрегат Паллада». - М. Дрофа, 2003. ISBN 5-7107-7264-X ( electronic version ).
  • Русский Биографический Словар, Брокгауз-Евфрон. 1896-1918 гг., Стр. 162-164. Статья Н. Кувшинского ( electronic version ).
  • История дипломатии, т. 1, М., 1959.
  • 上 野 芳 江 「プ チ ャ ー チ ン 提督 - 150 年 の 航跡」, 2005. ISBN 4-88595-570-X

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SURNAME Putyatin, Evfimi Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Путятин, Евфимий Васильевич (Russian); Putjatin, Evfimij Vasil'evič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian admiral, statesman and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1883
Place of death Paris