Reichstadt Agreement

The Reichstadt Agreement was an agreement made between Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire in July 1876. Both were then in an alliance with each other and the German Empire in the League of the Three Emperors, or Dreikaiserbund. Present were the Russian and Austro-Hungarian emperors together with their foreign ministers, Prince Alexander Gorchakov of Russia and Count Gyula Andrássy of Austria-Hungary. The closed meeting took place on July 8 in the Bohemian city of Reichstadt (now Zákupy). They agreed on a common approach to the solution of the Eastern Question because of the unrest in the Ottoman Empire and the interests of the two major powers in the Balkans. They discussed the likely Russo-Turkish War its possible outcomes and what should happen under each scenario.

The later Budapest Convention of 1877 confirmed the main points, but when the war concluded with the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878, the terms of the treaty were quite different, which led to Austro-Hungarian insistence on convening a revision at the Congress of Berlin later that year. Those events laid the background for the subsequent Bulgarian Crisis of 1885-1888 and ultimately World War I.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ Ragsdale, Hugh, ed. (1993). Imperial Russian Foreign Policy. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521442299.
^ Kellogg, Frederick (1995). The Road to Romanian Independence. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557530653.
^ Mikulas Fabry. The Idea of National Self-Determination and The Recognition of New States at The Congress Of Berlin (1878) Archived 2008-06-21 at the Wayback Machine. ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, March 24–27, 2002
^ Pribram, Alfred, ed. (1921). The Secret Treaties of Austria-Hungary. Vol. 2. Harvard University Press.

[ragsdale-1] Ragsdale, Hugh, ed. (1993). Imperial Russian Foreign Policy. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521442299.

[2] Kellogg, Frederick (1995). The Road to Romanian Independence. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557530653.

[3] Mikulas Fabry. The Idea of National Self-Determination and The Recognition of New States at The Congress Of Berlin (1878) Archived 2008-06-21 at the Wayback Machine. ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, March 24–27, 2002

[4] Pribram, Alfred, ed. (1921). The Secret Treaties of Austria-Hungary. Vol. 2. Harvard University Press.

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