Joy was not felt: how Russia gave Japan half-Sakhalin

On September 5, 1905, the signing of a peace treaty in Portsmouth ended the Russo-Japanese War. After a series of major defeats on land and at sea, Russia agreed to significant territorial concessions. In particular, she had to give Japan the southern half of Sakhalin, leave Manchuria and forget about Korea, where Petersburg had already begun to create infrastructure.

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