Аннотация: Interview with Sergei Witte about Singapore
Interview with Sergei Witte about Singapore
- Sergei Yulyevich! We are very interested in your opinion on the subject "Singapore"!
- You know ... The Pacific Ocean and the coastal countries - very not the simple region ...
- We understand it! But it would be desirable to hear your opinion on the subject "Singapore".
- Remember, for example, Alaska, attempts of the Russian seamen "to be fixed" on the islands of the Pacific Ocean located rather close to the equator ...
- We would like from you to hear on the subject "Singapore"!.
- The history of this region (I mean the Pacific Ocean and the coastal countries) - a difficult, a centuries-old ... Let's say in 1513 Portuguese for the first time landed in the mouth of the Zhujiang River - on the place of today's Macau. And when Nikolayevsk-on-Amur was founded?
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- On August 13, 1850 Nikolayevsky Post was founded by the Russian navigator, the captain of the I rank Gennady Nevelskoy. On November 14, 1856 the Nikolayevsk-on-Amur was founded on the place of the Nikolayevsky Post. In 1860, when the Head of the East Siberian Governor-General was Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, a military post was founded in the Golden Horn Bay. This military post was named Vladivostok.
- A centuries-old history, a difficult ... But nevertheless your opinion on the subject "Singapore"?
- Since the peace conference in Portsmouth (1905) at me good relations with media ...
- Very interestingly!
- I would like to render you assistance in preparation of your article about our meeting.
- Perfectly!!!
- Here one of gemstones which to me was put in a pocket with other gifts after the conclusion of the Portsmouth peace Treaty at my exit from church after short thanksgiving prayers for the conclusion of the peace Treaty. This gem someone (I passed through the crowd) put in my pocket as a token of sympathy for Russia and in gratitude for participating in the conclusion of the peace Treaty. You can make a photo.
- What interesting gemstone. Surely we will place the photo.
- Add to article of historical details. For example, you may to write that the Portsmouth peace treaty terminated the Russian-Chinese convention of 1898. This convention granted Russia the rights of rent of the Liaodong Peninsula (and Port Arthur in particular). Russia conceded to Japan the South of Sakhalin.
- Historical details will be useful!
- What volume of costs of construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway?
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- Here some more details. The general extent of the Chinese Eastern Railway made 2346 versts. On one verst expenses averaged 158 thousand rubles. Approximately: 286984 kg of pure gold. Plus operating costs.
- Photo! Text. Calculations. A gloss of gold!!! A good material turns out! I am hurry in edition!
- I wish all good!
- I thank!
November 15, 2018 23:22
Translation from Russian into English: November 16, 2018 00:18.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Интервью С.Ю. Витте о Сингапуре'.