The Danube River has been a trade waterway for centuries, but with the rise of international borders and the jealousies of national states, commerce and shipping has often been hampered for reasons of
Military post on the Danube during the Crimean War, 1853, Illustrated London News
François Adolphe Bourqueney of France
Alexander Mihailovich Gortschakoff of Russia
Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
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The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, formerly often written Kuchuk-Kainarji, was a peace treaty signed on 21 July 1774, in Küçük Kaynarca between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, ending the Russo-T
Internationalization of the Danube River
…the Austrians were granted the right to navigate the middle and lower Danube, at that time under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Under the 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, ending a war between Russia and Turkey, Russia was allowed to use the lower Danube. The Treaty of Adrianople, ending the Russo-Turkish War (1828–29…
Contemporary engraving related to the Kuchuk-Kainarji treaty
Ahmed Resmî Efendi, chief Ottoman negotiator of the treaty
Commemorative plaque at the location where the treaty was signed
Fireworks at the Khodynka Field near Moscow, a 1775 etching by Yemelyan Alekseevich Fedoseev in the National Museum in Warsaw commemorating celebrations and amusements on the occasion of the signing of the treaty