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Britain sent thousands of troops to Archangel and Murmansk to support White Russian forces against the Bolsheviks. It failed. The USSR was established in 1922, and the UK formally recognized it in 1924, only to break off relations after a brief diplomatic row in 1927.

Paradoxically, by 1907 the two empires signed the Anglo-Russian Convention , settling their Central Asian disputes and joining France to form the Triple Entente against Germany. The reason: both feared the rising power of Imperial Germany more than each other. rus eng

In 1553, King Edward VI sent three ships under Sir Hugh Willoughby to find the Northeast Passage to China. Two ships were trapped in Arctic ice; Willoughby and his crew were later found frozen to death off the coast of Lapland. However, the third ship—the Edward Bonaventure under Richard Chancellor—survived. Chancellor sailed into the White Sea and traveled overland to Moscow. Britain sent thousands of troops to Archangel and