Treaty of Livadia

Treaty of Livadia

Drafted	2 October 1879
Location	Livadiya, Crimea, Russian Empire
Condition	Unratified; superseded by the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)
Signatories	Chonghou Nikolay Girs and Evgeny Butsov
Parties	China Russia

The Treaty of Livadia was an unequal treaty between the Russian Empire and the Chinese Qing dynasty signed in Livadiya, Crimea, on 2 October 1879,^[1] wherein Russia agreed to return a portion of the lands it had occupied in Xinjiang during the Dungan Revolt of 1862–1877. Even though Qing forces had reconquered the area, the resulting treaty was extremely unfavorable to China. As a result, the Qing government refused to ratify it and the emissary who made the negotiations was sentenced to death (although the sentence was not carried out). Seventeen months later, the two nations signed the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, which apart from territorial matters, largely had the same terms as the Treaty of Livadia.