List of Russian Ambassadors in the United Kingdom

List of Russian Ambassadors to the Court of St James’s .

Russian Embassy Kensington Palace Gardens 4–7

Heads of mission

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Appointed / Accredited	Surname	Remarks	Leave the embassy post
1760 ~	Alexander Vorontsov		1762
1785	Semyon Vorontsov		1832
1806	Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov		1806
1806	Maximilian of Alopaeus		1808
1828 ~	Paul by Nicolay		1828
1840	Philipp von Brunnow		1854
1858	Philipp von Brunnow		1874
1874	Pyotr Andreevich Shuvalov		1878
1882	Arthur von Mohrenheim		1884
1883	Sergei Dmitrievich Sasonov	Embassy secretary
1903	Alexander Konstantinowitsch Benckendorff	In 1904 the Russian Embassy acquired Airedale Terriere as army dogs for the Russo-Japanese War .	1917
1917	Konstantin Dmitrievich Nabokov	(1872–1927) Chargé d'Affaires consul general previously member of the Preobrazhensky body guard regiment .	1917
1920	Maxim Maximowitsch Litvinow	In 1920/1921 he led the Soviet delegation in negotiations with Great Britain, which in March 1921 resulted in a trade agreement and de facto recognition of the Soviet Union by London.	1921
March 1921	Leonid Krasin	After the October Revolution in 1917, Krassin was People's Commissar for Trade and Industry from November 1918, then People's Commissar for Foreign Trade until 1923, as such he concluded the Anglo-Soviet trade agreement of March 1921.	March 1921
June 1923	Christian Georgievich Rakovsky	Was removed from Ukraine by Josef Stalin in mid-1923 and was supposed to negotiate formal recognition of the Soviet Union in Great Britain and France . The governments in London and Moscow established diplomatic relations in 1924. Angered by the murder of his cousin Nicholas II (Russia) , George V (United Kingdom) refused to see the Soviet envoy. In violation of diplomatic protocol, he sent the Prince of Wales Edward VIII to receive the letter of accreditation from the Soviet ambassador on February 1, 1924.	1925
1926	Arkadi Pavlovich rosewood	Chargé d'affaires of the Soviet trade mission in London. In 1926 the government of Alexei Ivanovich Rykov offered the Trades Union Congress its support in the general strike, which Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, refused. The government of Stanley Baldwin then searched the Soviet trade agency in London, broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union on May 27, 1927 and terminated the trade agreement.	1927
1929	Grigory Sokolnikov		1932
1932	Ivan Michailowitsch Maiski	Representative of the Soviet Union	1943
1943	Fyodor Tarasovich Gusew	Representative of the Soviet Union	1946
1946	Georgi Nikolayevich Sarubin		1952
1952	Andrei Andreevich Gromyko	Representative of the Soviet Union	1953
1953	Yakov Alexandrovich Malik	Representative of the Soviet Union Naval Attaché Yevgeny Ivanov	1960
1960	Alexander Alexejewitsch Soldatow	Representative of the Soviet Union	1966
1966	Mikhail Smirnovsky	Representative of the Soviet Union	1972
1986	Leonid Zamyatin	Representative of the Soviet Union	1991
1991	Boris Dmitrievich Pankin	Representative of the Soviet Union in December 1991	1994
1994	Anatoly Adamishin		1997
2000 March	Grigori Karasin		2005 June
2005 June	Yuri Fedotov	As a result of the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko , the government refused Vladimir Putin , Andrey Lugovoy to deduct from the embassy in London, after which he for Persona non grata was declared. His laissez passer expired on July 16, 2007.	2010
March 2, 2010	Alexander Vladimirovich Jakovenko	Appointed on January 29, 2010.	August 24, 2019
August 24, 2019	Ivan Alexeyevich Volodin	Иван Алексеевич Володин, chargé

See also

• List of British ambassadors to Russia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Zarusky, The German Social Democrats and the Soviet Model. Ideological discussion and foreign policy conceptions 1917–1933, Munich 1992, p . 209 At ARCOS and the Russian Trade Delegation, the new chargé d'affaires, Arkady Rosengolz, actually placed a ban on Soviet staff becoming involved in any strike-related activity . see: Timothy Phillips, The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age [1]
2. ↑ ( Died: Fyodor Tarassowitsch Gussew spiegel.de) . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1987 ( online ).
3. ↑ Sparkling wine for Alex . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1965 ( online ).