Treaty of Nerchinsk

The Treaty of Nerchinsk was the first agreement between the Tsardom of Russia and the Qing Empire, and it fixed their border in the Amur region after years of clashes over the Russian outpost of Albazin. Russian envoy Fyodor Golovin and the Manchu official Songgotu negotiated it, with Jesuits including Jean-François Gerbillon and Tomás Pereira acting as interpreters, and the final text was in Latin, Russian and Manchu. Russia gave up Albazin and the Amur basin, and the border ran along the Argun River and the Stanovoy range. In return, Russia received trading rights in China. The settlement kept the frontier largely stable until the mid-nineteenth century, when Russia regained the Amur lands.

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