Alexander Alexandrovich Savinsky

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Savinski ( Russian Александр Александрович Савинский ; * 1868 in Kaunas , † 1931 in London ) was a Russian ambassador .

Life

Sawinski's father was a shopkeeper and businessman . Savinski studied law at the University of Saint Petersburg until 1891 and entered the foreign service. In the military he was deployed in the guard regiment on horseback. From 1900 to 1910 he was employed as office manager and master of ceremonies for Foreign Minister Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Graf Lamsdorf and Alexander Petrovich Iswolski . Reforms in the Foreign Ministry were initiated by him, which did not make him popular. On January 23, 1912, Savinsky signed the International Opium Convention for the Russian Empire . During his tenure in Bulgaria, Vasil Radoslawow ruled there , whose policy towards the Central Powers and the Ottoman Empire was friendly and hostile towards the Russian Empire and entered the First World War on October 11, 1914 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historisk tidskrift , Volume 2; Volume 14, Svenska historiska föreningen, 1951, p. 202
2. ↑ International affairs , issues 1–6 Vsesoi͡uznoe obshchestvo po rasprostranenii͡u politicheskikh i nauchnykh znaniĭ, Izdatelʹstvo "Znanie", Znanye Pub. House, 1993, p. 133
3. ↑ Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Savinskiĭ, A. Savinsky. Recollections of a Russian Diplomat. London, Hutchinson, 1927.316

predecessor	Office	successor
Nikolai Pavlovich Shishkin	Russian ambassador to Sweden 1912–1913	Wazlaw Wazlawowitsch Worowski
Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Nekljudow	Russian ambassador to Bulgaria 1914–1915	Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov