The author discusses the problems caused by the rupture of the Russian-American trade agreement of 1832. The place of the treaty is revealed in the Russian political and economic space, it also points to various aspects in the domestic and foreign policy of Russia, caused by its dissolution. The author analyzes the reasons that caused such a violent reaction in the Russian political com- munity to the termination of this treaty. It is noted that the policy of individual parties and factions in the State Duma was closely connected with the economic issues of the Russian-American trade treaty of 1832 and was exposed to the open influence of the Russian bourgeois circles due to its rupture.