Treaty of Kyakhta
August 1, 1727
Russia and Qing China fixed their long Siberian border and opened trade at a remote Mongolian crossroads. Russian furs flowed south; Chinese tea and silk flowed north. For more than a century, nearly all Russian tea arrived by caravan through Kyakhta. Two empires had politely agreed to ignore each other for a while.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.