In this connection it may be stated that Alexander II made a very long step toward the East when, in 1858, he made a treaty with China which recognized the authority of Russia throughout all the vast region on the left bank of the River Amor, clear to its mouth, near which he established the first port on the Pacific and Vladivostok.
Perhaps the commercial aspirations of the empire would have been satisfied with this achievement but for the fact that during four months of the year this port is blocked with ice, and its possession did not relieve Russia from the position of a land-locked empire.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
