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Updated: July 16, 2025
The treaty, which was concluded in 1858, conceded the left bank of this river to Russia. Nikolaifsk, a great part of the year sealed up with ice, was only a stepping-stone for the next advance southward.
Port Arthur was no farther from Pekin and Seoul than it was five years before, and it was much nearer to St. Petersburg! And as Russia had already made surprising bounds from Nikolaifsk to Vladivostok, and from Vladivostok to Port Arthur, she might make still another to one or both of these capitals.
Vladivostok, at the southern extremity of the new province, was founded in 1860, and in 1872 made chief naval station on the eastern coast, in place of Nikolaifsk. But the prize obtained after such expenditure of effort and diplomacy was far from satisfactory.
Pathfinder and pioneer in the march across the Asiatic continent, drawing settlers after him as he moved along, he reached the mouth of the Amur river in 1846, and, at last, the empire possessed a naval station upon the Pacific, which was named Nikolaifsk, after the reigning Tsar, Nicholas I.
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