Louis Livingston Seaman mentioned the massacre as being the reason for the Chinese Honghuzi hatred towards the Russians:The Chinaman, be he Hung-hutze or peasant, in his relation to the Russians in this conflict with Japan has not forgotten the terrible treatment accorded him since the Muscovite occupation of Manchuria.
It is located on the right (south-western) bank of the Amur River, across which is Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, Russia.
It begins not far from Uda Bay on the Pacific and flows southwest, crossing the Baikal Amur Mainline just west of Fevralsk and reaches the Zeya north of the Trans-Siberian Railway and Blagoveshchensk.
It is navigable with the most important river ports being Zeya, Svobodny, and Blagoveshchensk.