The Treaties of Tilsit, also collectively known as the Peace of Tilsit, were two peace treaties signed by French Emperor Napoleon in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland, at the end of the War of the Fourth Coalition. The first was signed on 7 July, between Napoleon and Russian Emperor Alexander I, when they met on a raft in the middle of the Neman river. The second was signed with Prussia on 9 July. The treaties were made at the expense of King Frederick William III of Prussia, who had already agreed to a truce on 25 June after the Grande Armée had captured Berlin and pursued him to the easternmost frontier of his realm.
Meeting of Napoleon I and Alexander I on the Neman, 25 June 1807, by Adolphe Roehn (1808)
A French medallion dating from the post-Tilsit period. It shows the French and Russian emperors embracing each other.
Napoleon, Alexander I of Russia, Queen Louise of Prussia, and Frederick William III in Tilsit, 1807. Painted by Nicolas Gosse, c. 1900
Prussia in 1807 (orange) and its territories lost at Tilsit (other colours).
Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Sovetsk is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.
Old town of Sovetsk, with German-era buildings
Napoleon, Alexander I, Queen Louise, and Frederick William III in Tilsit, 1807; painted by Nicolas Gosse
Lithuanian Church, between 1910 and 1930
Queen Louise bridge