Alexander Antonowitsch Trojanowski

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On June 28, 1937, Trojanowski was photographed with three Soviet pilots who flew from the USSR to the USA over the North Pole , leaving the White House where they had received President Franklin D. Roosevelt . From left: Georgi Baidukov ; Valery Chkalov ; Alexander Trojanowski; Alexander Belyakov

Alexander Antonovich Trojanowski ( Russian Александр Антонович Трояновский ; born January 1 . Jul / 13. January  1882 greg. In Tula ; † 23. June 1955 in Moscow ) was a Soviet ambassador .

Life

Trojanowski was an officer in the Tsar's army . In 1900 he graduated from the Voronezh Military Academy . From 1900 to 1903 he studied at an artillery school in Saint Petersburg . In 1904 he took a semester of physics, mathematics and law at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev .

From 1904 he was a member of the RSDLP and a member of the Committee for Kiev .

In the Russo-Japanese War he was involved in fighting Japanese troops in Manchuria in April 1905 with an artillery unit .

In 1908 he was arrested and exiled. In 1910 Trojanowski emigrated from Russia and collaborated with the Bolsheviks . After the October Revolution of 1917, he returned to Russia and served in the Red Army from 1917 to 1918 .

From 1918 to 1921 he was a lecturer at a teachers' college. From 1921 he worked in the office of the People's Commissariat of the Workers and Peasants Inspection of the RSFSR . In 1923 Trojanowski joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . From 1924 to 1927 he was chairman of the general presidium of the RSFSR and member of the board of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade of the USSR, from November 14, 1927 to January 24, 1933 he was plenipotentiary representative of the Soviet Union in Japan, and from November 20, 1933 to October 1, 1938 authorized representative of the USSR in the USA.

In March 1936 Trojanowski presented the Jewish settlement Birobidzhan-1 in the Soviet Union in a Canadian newspaper .

From 1939 to 1941 Trojanowski was a lecturer at the Higher Diplomatic School of the People's Commissariat of the USSR. In 1947 he received a professorship.

From 1941 he worked in the Soviet Information Office in the Council of Ministers of the USSR .

In 1943 he published a book in the Soviet Union in which he presented the motives of the USA to participate in World War II.

Trojanowski was married to Jelena Fjodorovna Rosmirowitsch ; their daughter Galina married Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev . The son Oleg Trojanowski (1919–2003) - Soviet UN ambassador from 1976 to 1986 - came from another marriage.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Troyanovsky. Pioneer Jews Wanted , The Canadian Jewish Chronicle - March 27, 1936 ( online ): “We present here with the second and concluding article on the Jews in the Soviet Union by the distinguished Russian statesman who represents the USSR at Washington. In this article Ambassador Troyanovsky deals with the Jewish settlement in Birobidjan, which he visited personally in 1934. ED. The foundation of Jewish settlement in Birobidjan on March 28, 1928, was acclaimed by the Soviet Union, and the decision on May 7, 1934, to form the Province of Birobidjan was celebrated by the entire population of the USSR "
  2. ↑ Communications: What They See in the Papers. In: Time , April 19, 1943, ( online , access for subscribers only)
personal data
SURNAME Trojanowski, Alexander Antonowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Трояновский, Александр Антонович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Tula
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1955
Place of death Moscow