The Treaty of Portsmouth - The End of the Ruso-Japanese War

Serge vita led a delegation to portsmouth, new hampshire in the summer of 19 o five where they negotiated with their japanese counterparts. The russian empire gave up its claims to the laudong peninsula and southern manchuria, but kept control of the chinese eastern railway that serviced ladivostok. They would pay no monetary indemnity or reparation. Instead, they ceded the southern half of sakoline island to Japans.