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French fleet visit to Kronstadt (1891)
On the WWI map as “Kronstadt”
Jul 1891 — A French squadron calls at Russia’s naval base, where Tsar Alexander III stands bareheaded as a band plays the Marseillaise, the anthem of revolution. The scene brings unlikely partners together: autocratic Russia and republican France are courting, thirteen months after Germany allowed the Reinsurance Treaty to lapse.
When Jul 1891 Type Turning point Chapter Alliance system before WWI (chapter 1 of WWI)Atlas The Great War, 1871–1923 Also in Russian Revolution TURNING POINT · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Anglo-Russian Convention, 31 August 1907, articles I–II
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0 Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain US Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States; convention’s named places define the two concession spheres.. Historical treaty facts, independently reconstructed Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.
The displayed state is iss 1907. Geographic reference dates and reconstruction methods are recorded for each feature.
reconstruction: 1871–1918 · reconstruction: 1907 Ottoman footprint · reconstruction: 31 August 1907 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1871–1914 · vector: 1871–1916 · vector: 1873–1914 · vector: 1885–1907 · vector: 1885–1910 · vector: 1885–1911 · vector: 1890–1914 · vector: 1895–1910 · vector: 1895–1917 · vector: 1898–1914 · vector: 1900–1907 · vector: 1900–1912 · vector: 1900–1918 · vector: 1905–1907 · vector: 1905–1910 · vector: 1905–1911 · vector: 1905–1912 · vector: 1905–1914 · vector: 1905–1915 · vector: 1905–1921
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