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The Romanovs' Secret Treaty of Björkö: When Nicholas II Almost Betrayed France
In July 1905, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II met secretly aboard the German yacht Polarlicht off the coast of Finland. The result was the Treaty of Björkö — a startling defensive alliance between Russia and Germany that would have shattered the Franco-Russian alliance and redrawn the map of European power. Historians still debate whether the impulsive, handwritten treaty was a genuine diplomatic breakthrough or a fantasy born of royal cousinly affection. Lucas and Luna explore how Nicholas's foreign minister Sergei Witte fought to kill the treaty, why Wilhelm thought he had won…
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