Thus, as the result of the Crimean War and the Treaty of Paris which formulated it, Russia lost the domination of the Black Sea and the protectorate of the Eastern Christians.
The fruits of the policy of Peter I, Catherine II and Alexander I, which had aimed at unlocking Russia by a port on the unfrozen sea were, therefore, annihilated by this document. The hasty policy of Nicholas had compromised the work of two centuries, and with it lost to Russia valuable domains which she was destined afterward to shed much blood to recover.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
