London Conference

…War was ended by the London Conference of 1871, which allowed Russia to rebuild its naval forces. In 1876 the Serbo-Turkish War produced an outburst of Pan-Slav feeling in Russia. Partly under its influence, but mainly in pursuit of traditional strategic aims, Russia declared war on Turkey in April 1877.…

…the difficult negotiations of the London Conference (1871), after Russia had denounced the Treaty of Paris of 1856, and he settled the Alabama claims, a dispute centred on the English-built cruiser Alabama, used by the Confederacy as a commerce destroyer during the American Civil War. He became the official leader…