Yevfimy Putyatin

Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin ( _ru. Евфимий Васильевич Путятин) (November 8, 1803–October 16, 1883) was a Russian admiral noted for his diplomatic missions to Japan and China which resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda in 1855.

He was amongst the crew that sailed around the world with Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (1822 - 1825). and participated in the Caucasian War (1838 - 1839). In 1842 he led an armed diplomatic mission to Iran, which secured diplomatic relations, trade relations and steamer communication between the two countries.

He led a Russian expedition to open Japan to trade, which went to England, Africa and Japan and back to Russia from 1852 to 1855, onboard the frigate "Pallada", commanded by Admiral Ivan Unkovsky. These efforts culminated in the signing of a commercial treaty between Russia and Japan in 1855.

He arrived in Nagasaki on August 12, 1853, just one month after the first visit of Commodore Perry. Putyatin made a demonstration of a steam engine on his ship the "Pallada", which led to Japan's first manufacture of a steam engine the same year under the direction of Hisashige Tanaka.

In his expedition, Putyatin was accompanied by Alexander Mozhaysky and a secretary, the writer Ivan Goncharov, who wrote a travelogue, "The Frigate Pallada" ("The Frigate Pallas"), published in 1858 ("Pallada" is the Russian spelling of "Pallas").

Following his successful trip to Japan and participation in the naval Action of 1854 he was made a Count. After the end of the Crimean War, he was sent to London as a naval attaché. In February 1857 he was appointed plenipotentiary to China and set out aboard the from St Petersburg in March of that year.

ee also

*Relations between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire

References

* [http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/re/k-rsc/ras/publication/kiyo_en/06/6_05.pdf Frigate "Pallada" in Japan and the Friendship Treaty between Japan and Russia]
* [http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/earns/askold.html William McOmie, The Frigate Askold and the Opening of the Russian Foreign Settlementy at Nagasaki]