The Anglo-Franco-Russian agreement is a secret agreement drawn up on March 18, 1915 between the Entente countries, according to which Great Britain and France agreed to resolve the centuries-old Eastern question by transferring Constantinople with the Black Sea straits of the Russian Empire in exchange for land in the Asian part of the Ottoman Empire [1] .
As a result of the agreement of the Ottoman Empire, for the first time in history, a coalition of three great powers opposed. The price for Constantinople was to be the Russian Bosphorus naval operation . Without the participation of the Russian fleet, the Dardanelles operation of the British command failed, but already in 1917 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government P.N. Milyukov obtained confirmation from the Allies that the terms of the 1915 agreement remained in force [2] .
After the October Revolution, Lenin signed (December 3, 1917) an appeal to the working Muslims of the East, where he divulged the existence of a secret agreement, stating that "the secret treaties of the ousted tsar to capture Constantinople, confirmed by the ousted Kerensky , are now torn and destroyed" [3] .
See also
- The formation of the territory of the Russian Empire
- Sykes Convention - Pico
- Middle Eastern War Theater
- Caucasus Front (World War I)
Notes
- ↑ V.K. Shatsillo. World War I 1914-1918: facts, documents. Moscow, 2003.S. 107.
- ↑ Bertran Russell . Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18 . ISBN 9780415094108 . Page 140.
- ↑ English-French-Russian secret agreement 1915. // Diplomatic Dictionary. M .: State Publishing House of Political Literature. A. Ya. Vyshinsky, S.A. Lozovsky. 1948.
Literature
- Collection of treaties of Russia with other states. 1856-1917 / [edited by E.A. Adamova ; Compiled by I.V. Kozmenko ]. - M .: Gospolitizdat, 1952.- 462 p.