The SazonovâPalĂ©ologue Agreement was a 26 April 1916 letter from Russian Foreign minister Sergey Sazonov to French ambassador to Russia Maurice PalĂ©ologue regarding Western Armenia and the Anglo-French SykesâPicot Agreement. The agreement for Russia influence over Western Armenia was given in return for Russian assent to the Sykes-Picot arrangement. [1] [2] The agreement took place on the first anniversary of the Treaty of London. [3]
Russia was allocated the vilayets of Erzurum, Trebizond, Bitlis and Van; [3] much of which was under Russian occupation at the time. [3]
The Sazonov-Paleologue agreement of April 26, 1916 between Great Britain and France and the SykesâPicot agreement of May 16, 1916 between Great Britain and France which together made up the Anglo-Franco-Russian accord of 1916...
Accordingly, on April 26, 1916 the first anniversary of the Treaty of London with Italy France and Russia signed the secret Sazonov-Paleologue Treaty concerning their respective territorial rights in Asiatic Turkey. Russia was awarded full sovereignty over the vilayets of Trebizond, Erzerum, Bitlis, and Van a vast area of 60,000 square miles (about one and one-fifth times the size of the State of New York), containing valuable mineral and petroleum resources. This handsome prize put Russia well on the road to Constantinople and in a fair way to turn the Black Sea into a Russian lake. And at the moment the treaty was signed the armies of the Grand Duke Nicholas were actually overrunning the territory which Russia had staked out for herself
The SazonovâPalĂ©ologue Agreement was a 26 April 1916 letter from Russian Foreign minister Sergey Sazonov to French ambassador to Russia Maurice PalĂ©ologue regarding Western Armenia and the Anglo-French SykesâPicot Agreement. The agreement for Russia influence over Western Armenia was given in return for Russian assent to the Sykes-Picot arrangement. [1] [2] The agreement took place on the first anniversary of the Treaty of London. [3]
Russia was allocated the vilayets of Erzurum, Trebizond, Bitlis and Van; [3] much of which was under Russian occupation at the time. [3]
The Sazonov-Paleologue agreement of April 26, 1916 between Great Britain and France and the SykesâPicot agreement of May 16, 1916 between Great Britain and France which together made up the Anglo-Franco-Russian accord of 1916...
Accordingly, on April 26, 1916 the first anniversary of the Treaty of London with Italy France and Russia signed the secret Sazonov-Paleologue Treaty concerning their respective territorial rights in Asiatic Turkey. Russia was awarded full sovereignty over the vilayets of Trebizond, Erzerum, Bitlis, and Van a vast area of 60,000 square miles (about one and one-fifth times the size of the State of New York), containing valuable mineral and petroleum resources. This handsome prize put Russia well on the road to Constantinople and in a fair way to turn the Black Sea into a Russian lake. And at the moment the treaty was signed the armies of the Grand Duke Nicholas were actually overrunning the territory which Russia had staked out for herself