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Vitte, S. I︠U︡. (Sergeĭ I︠U︡lʹevich), graf, 1849-1915

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Peace

Peace

Sheet music arranged by Frederic Mullen that combines the Japanese and Russian national anthems. “Hail Columbia,” a song representing the United States, concludes the arrangement. The song is in response to the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War. The front cover displays an angelic figure, representing peace, above the portraits of President Roosevelt, S. Vitte, and Jutaro Komura; three of the negotiators that worked together to end the war.

Collection

Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection

Creation Date

1905

Japanese and Russian peace delegates leaving New York City in 1905

Japanese and Russian peace delegates leaving New York City in 1905

On August 5, 1905, the Japanese and Russian delegations to the Portsmouth Peace Conference left New York City to board ships which would take them first to Oyster Bay to talk with Theodore Roosevelt and then to the conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This film includes views at the wharf of the New York Yacht Club of the Japanese delegation boarding two U.S. Navy steam launches; and part of the Russian delegation walking down a ramp to the wharf. The first three men are unidentified. The last two men are the chief Russian envoys, Sergei Witte and Baron Roman von Rosen. The delegation is greeted by Third Assistant Secretary of State Herbert H. D. Peirce and others. The Russians board a steam launch. The final view shows a man walking down the ramp and then boarding another launch. Members of the Japanese delegation included Baron Kogoro Takahira, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States, and envoy Jutaro Komura.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1905

Roosevelt – Peacemaker

Roosevelt – Peacemaker

Using his access to Theodore Roosevelt’s correspondence, Joseph Bucklin Bishop examines the events, decisions, and actions that brought about the Treaty of Portsmouth and ended the Russo-Japanese War on September 5, 1905. Bishop primarily focuses on Roosevelt’s work to bring about peace; work that earned Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize.

Collection

Newberry Library

Creation Date

1919-09

Camp Ordway

Camp Ordway

A four panel cartoon showing National Guardsmen marching into Camp Ordway in Washington, D.C.; President Roosevelt assisting Foreign Affairs Minister Komura and Secretary of State Witte with the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War; Secretary of Agriculture Wilson celebrating the return of Hyde (possibly James Hazen Hyde); and a Mississippian and a Louisianan eying each other across the state line, while a mosquito above them says, “Here’s where I get my work in. Biz-z-z.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905

Letter from Cecil Spring Rice to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Letter from Cecil Spring Rice to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Chargé d’Affaires of Britain Spring Rice details to First Lady Roosevelt the economic and political climate in Russia. While Spring Rice sees no immediate stirrings of revolution there, he hints that revolution may still be in Russia’s future because of the unsustainable, poor economic conditions in the rural areas and the dearth of strong, reform-minded leadership within the government. While Spring Rice sees Russia’s Interior Minister, Vi︠a︡cheslav Konstantinovich Pleve, as a capable leader, Pleve opposes reform, and though S. I︠U︡. Vitte, the chairman of the Committee of Ministers is “a strong man, too, and might be a reformer,” Emperor Nicholas II strongly dislikes him. Spring Rice also perceives Russia’s slights of other nations and its aversion to making treaties as hindrances to its government. Additionally, Spring Rice tells Roosevelt of a Russian folk story he has recently translated into English.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-09