# Three Peace Treaties with the participation of the Russian Empire and of the Soviet State. A Historical-Diplomatic Note

Henry de Overwood

MMMDCCLXVII. Three Peace Treaties with the participation of the Russian Empire and of the Soviet State. A Historical-Diplomatic Note. - February 16, 2026.

Three Peace Treaties with the participation of the Russian Empire and of the Soviet State. A Historical-Diplomatic Note.


The Russian Empire and the Soviet State participated in the numerous wars.


Logically reasoning, any war must have an end.


Somewhere far, - far away in the distant past, - were two major wars that lasted decades: the Livonian War and the Northern War (epochs of Ivan the Terrible and of Peter the Great). Even further away in history was the liberation from foreign rule (yoke) (epochs of Dmitry Donskoy and of Ivan III). Due to the historical distance, we will not now discuss the historical documents that formalized the end of these wars.


Closer to our time:


The Patriotic War of 1812,


The Crimean (Eastern) War (1853-1856),


The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905),


World War I (1914-1918),


The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945),


The Soviet-Japanese War (1945).


The Patriotic War of 1812 ended with the Imperial Manifesto. ("The proud ruler and leader - he, with his most senior officials, - could barely escape from here, having lost his entire army and all the cannons he brought with him, more than a thousand of which, not counting those buried and sunk by him, - [these cannons] have been recaptured from him and are in our hands." Imperial Manifesto of December 25, 1812).


The Crimean (Eastern) War (1853-1856) ended with a peace treaty signed at the Congress of Paris (1856).


The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) ended with a peace treaty (1905) signed in Portsmouth, USA (mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt).


World War I (1914-1918) ended for Russia with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918).


The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) ended with an act of capitulation, but not with a peace treaty. Whether subsequent agreements involving the USSR (or Russia) can be considered a peace treaty - it's is unclear. These agreements (treaties) are not explicitly called a peace treaty.


The Soviet-Japanese War (1945) has not yet ended with the signing of a peace treaty.


Thus, we, contemporaries of the Russian Federation, have three peace treaties:


1) The Treaty of Paris (1856) - after the Crimean (Eastern) War (1853-1856),


2) The Treaty of Portsmouth (1905),


2) The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918).


In the current situation, it is advisable to widely develop historical-diplomatic research on the topic of "Peace Treaties of the Russian Empire and the Soviet State," with the allocation of a significant public (state) funding.


February 16, 2026, 22:33 (10:33 PM)


Translation from Russian into English: February 17, 2026, 07:32

Владимир Владимирович Залесский " Три мирных договора Российской Империи и Советского государства. Историко-дипломатическая заметка. "


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