Reichstadt Agreement

Present were the Russian and Austro-Hungarian emperors together with their foreign ministers, Prince Alexander Gorchakov of Russia and Count Gyula Andrássy of Austria-Hungary.

The closed meeting took place on July 8 in the Bohemian city of Reichstadt (now Zákupy).

They agreed on a common approach to the solution of the Eastern Question because of the unrest in the Ottoman Empire and the interests of the two major powers in the Balkans.

The later Budapest Convention of 1877 confirmed the main points, but when the war concluded with the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878, the terms of the treaty were quite different, which led to Austro-Hungarian insistence on convening a revision at the Congress of Berlin later that year.

It also meant that Austria-Hungary and Russia were agreeing on how the Balkans would be divided in the case of a Russian victory.