Khvostov Incident

The Khvostov Incident (Russian: Инцидент Хвостова), called the Russian bandits of Bunka (Japanese: 文化露寇, romanized: Bunka rokō) in Japan, refers to a series of raids and clashes involving the Russian officer Lieutenant Nikolai Alexeyevich Khvostov of Russian-American Company against Japanese outposts in 1806–7, when the Russian envoy Nikolai Rezanov ordered his subordinates Khvostov and others to attack Iturup (Etorofu), a Japanese base on Sakhalin.

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