Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov

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Mikhail Muravyov

Michail Nikolajewitsch Murawjow , Russian Михаил Николаевич Муравьёв (born April 19, 1845 in Hrodna , Russian Empire ; † June 21, 1900 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian diplomat and politician.

Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Count Murawjow was a grandson of Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Murawjow-Wilenski and son of the governor of Hrodna. After his academic training, some of which he completed in Heidelberg, he entered the diplomatic service in 1864, became embassy secretary in Paris in 1880, counselor in Berlin in 1885 and envoy in Denmark in 1893 . In 1896 he became foreign minister .

Muravyov was a proponent of Russian expansion into Manchuria . In March 1898, he reached an agreement with the Chinese Empire to lease the Liaodong peninsula with the ports of Port Arthur and Dalian to the Russian Empire for 25 years. This exacerbated the conflicts with Great Britain and Japan . With Great Britain he was able to reach an agreement on the zones of influence in China in April 1899 . By order of Tsar Nicholas II, he campaigned for a disarmament conference in The Hague (May – July 1899) and wrote the invitation to the states to be invited, known as the Tsar's Manifesto . However , he could no longer stop the escalation in the conflict with Japan that led to the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 .

Individual evidence

  1. Short biography in the home calendar 1902, p. 231