By the favouring mercy of God, We, Alexander the Second, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of the Tauric Chersonese…
By the favouring mercy of God, We, Alexander the Second, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of the Tauric Chersonese, Tsar of Georgia; Sovereign of Pskov and Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia and Finland; Prince of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Semigallia, Samogitia, Białystok, Karelia, Tver, Yugra, Perm, Vyatka, Bulgaria and others; Sovereign and Grand Duke of Nizhny Novgorod, Chernigov, Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Belozersk, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislavl, and Ruler of all the northern country; and Sovereign of the lands of Iveria, Kartalinia and Kabardinia and of the provinces of Armenia; Hereditary Sovereign and Possessor of the Circassian and Mountain Princes and of others; Sovereign of Turkestan; Heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen and Oldenburg, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth. We make known by these presents that, in consequence of a mutual agreement between Us and the Government of the United States of North America, Our Plenipotentiaries concluded and signed at Washington, on 18/30 April of the present year 1867, a treaty for the cession of Our North American colonies.
On 18 October 1867 Alaska was transferred to the USA
