Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula
The Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula, also known as the Pavlov Agreement, is a treaty signed between Alexander Pavlov of the Empire of Russia and Li Hongzhang of the Qing Empire of China on 27 March 1898. The treaty granted Russia the lease of Port Arthur and permitted its railway to extend to the port from one of the points of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
