Igor Fyodorovich Maximychev

Igor Fjodorowitsch Maximytschew ( Russian Игорь Федорович Максимычев ; born November 1, 1932 in Tachta Bazaar , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet diplomat .

Life

Maximychev studied at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations and at the History Faculty of Lomonosov University Moscow . He received his doctorate in political science and worked in the diplomatic service from 1956. From 1976 to 1984 he was cultural attaché at the embassy of the USSR in Bonn and from 1987 to 1992 envoy at the Soviet and Russian embassies in Berlin . Since then he has been working at the Institute for Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences . At the same time Maximytschew also taught as a lecturer at the TU Berlin . He published some writings on German-Soviet relations . He is married and has three children.

Role during the fall of the wall

On the night of November 9th to 10th, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell in the course of the fall of the Wall , the envoy Maximytschew and another colleague served in the Soviet embassy in East Berlin. At that time he was the highest-ranking person present, the then ambassador Vyacheslav Kochemasov was already asleep. Maximychev, who claims to be a supporter of Gorbachev's policies , saw the border crossings on West German television, but did not inform the ambassador or the Soviet government, fearing a possible escalation. His contribution to historical events is the subject of Hans-Christoph Blumenberg's television film Deutschlandspiel . In it Maximytschew is played by Peter Ustinov .

Web links

Short biography
Literature by and about Igor Fjodorowitsch Maximytschew in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

^ Maximytschew, Igor Fjodorowitsch. In: Bolschaja biografitscheskaja enziklopedija . Retrieved April 23, 2016.
↑ Christof Münger: Berlin celebrated, Moscow slept. In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 8, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
↑ Thomas Loy: Diplomatic Night's Rest. Why the Soviet envoy in East Berlin slept through the opening of the Wall in 1989. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 22, 2006. Retrieved April 23, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Maximychev, Igor Fyodorowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Максимычев, Игорь Федорович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tachta bazaar

[1] Maximytschew, Igor Fjodorowitsch. In: Bolschaja biografitscheskaja enziklopedija . Retrieved April 23, 2016.

[2] Christof Münger: Berlin celebrated, Moscow slept. In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 8, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2016.

[3] Thomas Loy: Diplomatic Night's Rest. Why the Soviet envoy in East Berlin slept through the opening of the Wall in 1989. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 22, 2006. Retrieved April 23, 2016.