3 June 1896Li-Lobanov TreatySergei Yulyevich Witte
Secures rights linked to the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Historical records for Russia in 1896, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Secures rights linked to the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Backs the railway route across Manchuria toward Vladivostok.
China agrees to allow a Russian railway route through Manchuria.
The first night of The Seagull at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Petersburg was a fiasco, booed by the audience, and stung Chekhov into renouncing the theatre
Arrested & exiled to Orlov for 3 yrs
Birth of Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhadnov
Birth of Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, son of peasant parents born in Moscow
Birth of Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky
Russia discloses a plan to seize Constantinople if Britain intervenes in Crete
The Art Theatre commissions more plays from Chekhov & stages Uncle Vanya
Appointed Foreign Minister
Witte accumulates gold reserves and prepares the legislation needed to make the ruble convertible.
Helps maintain contacts in the illegal Marxist network.
Continues agitation among workers before the party is created.
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