List of Russian ambassadors in Germany

Russian Embassy , Unter den Linden 63–65, Berlin

The Russian and (from 1922) the Soviet embassy in Prussia and in the German Reich was located in Berlin , Unter den Linden , from 1837 to 1941 . The embassy of the Soviet Union in the Federal Republic of Germany was located in the former Hotel Rolandseck-Groyen in Remagen - Rolandseck ( Ahrweiler district ) on Bundesstrasse 9 from 1955 to 1975 and in Bonn- Bad Godesberg until 1999 (1991-2000 embassy of the Russian Federation ). Since 2000, the Russian Embassy located again in Berlin, Unter den Linden 63-65, the former, after the Second World War, newly built Embassy of the Soviet Union in the GDR .

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Envoy to the German Confederation

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Ambassador to the German Reich

Appointed (Accredited)	Surname	Remarks	Leave the embassy post
1871	Paul of Oubril	on December 31, 1871 with Kaiser Wilhelm I. previously accredited from 1863 Russian envoy in Prussia	1880
1880	Pyotr Alexandrovich Saburov		1884
1885	Pavel Andreevich Shuvalov		1894
1895	Nikolai von der Osten-Sacken		1912
1912	Sergei Nikolaevich Swerbejew		1914
April 1918	Adolf Abramowitsch Joffe	as the representative of the RSFSR after the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty	November 1918
1919	Sergei Dmitrievich Botkin	as representative of the Russian national governments of Kolchak and Wrangel	1920
July 23, 1922	Nikolai Nikolayevich Krestinsky		September 26, 1930
September 26, 1930	Lev Mikhailovich Chinchuk		September 20, 1934
September 20, 1934	Jakow Sakharovich Suriz		April 7, 1937
June 16, 1937	Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Jurenew		October 11, 1937
1937	Georgi Alexandrovich Astakhov	Chargé d'affaires	1938
May 6, 1938	Alexei Fyodorovich Merekalov	(1900-1983)	September 2, 1939
September 2, 1939	Alexei Alexejewitsch Schkwarzew		November 26, 1940
November 26, 1940	Vladimir Georgievich Dekanosow	(1898-1953)	June 22, 1941

Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany

Appointed (Accredited)	Surname	Remarks	Leave the embassy post
1955	Valerian Alexandrovich Sorin	(1902-1986)	1956
October 1956	Andrei Andreevich Smirnov	(1905-1982)	1966
May 1966	Semjon Konstantinowitsch Zarapkin	(1906-1984)	1971
May 1971	Valentin Michailowitsch Falin	(1926-2018)	1978
November 1978	Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov	(1911-1992)	1986
April 1986	July Alexandrovich Kwizinsky	(1936-2010)	1990
May 1990	Vladislav Petrovich Terekhov	(* 1933)	1997
September 1997	Sergei Borisovich Krylov	(* 1949)	2003
April 2004	Vladimir Vladimirovich Kotenev	(* 1957)	2010
June 2010	Vladimir Mikhailovich Grinin	(* 1947)	2018
January 2018	Sergei Yuryevich Nechayev	(* 1953)

Envoys in the German States (before 1871)

Envoy in Baden

• 1811–1817: Pjotr ​​Fjodorowitsch von Maltitz (1754–1826)
• 1817–1818: Yuri Aleksandrovich von Golowkin (1763–1846)
• 1818–1820: Friedrich Apollonius von Maltitz (1795–1870)
• 1820–1828: Konstantin von Benckendorff (1784–1828)
• 1829–1846: Pawel Fjodorowitsch Moltke (1786–1846)
• 1846–1854: Ivan Petrovich Oserow (1806–1880)
• 1854–1865: Nikolaj Arkadjewitsch Stolypin (1814–1884)
• 1865–1870: Wilhelm von Kotzebue (1813–1887)
• 1870–1871: Felix von Meyendorff (1834–1871)
• 1871–1882: Ivan Petrovich Koloschin (1827–1891)
• 1897–1912: Dimitri von Eichler (1853–1912)
• 1912–1914: Nikolai Brevern de la Gardie (1856–1929)

Envoy in Bavaria

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Envoy in Hanover

• 1847–1852: Alexander Pavlovich Masurow
• 1852–1856: Andreas Fjodorowitsch von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1817–1881)
• 1856–1866: Ivan Emmanuelowitsch Persiany

Envoy to the Hanseatic cities

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Envoy in Prussia

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Envoy in Saxony

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Envoy in Württemberg

• 1811–1813: Dawid Maximowitsch Alopaeus (1769–1831)
• 1813-1818: Yuri Alexandrowitsch Golowkin (1762-1846)
• 1818–1824: Konstantin von Benckendorff (1784–1828)
• 1828–1831: Alexander Obreskow (1793–1885)
• 1832–1839: Peter von Meyendorff (1796–1863)
• 1839–1841: Philipp von Brunnow (1797–1875)
• 1841–1854: Alexander Michailowitsch Gortschakow (1798–1883)
• 1855–1856: Wladimir Pawlowitsch Titow (1807–1891)
• 1856–1858: Konstantin von Benckendorff (1816–1858)
• 1858–1865: Wladimir Pawlowitsch Titow (1807–1891)
• 1865–1871: Nikolaj Arkadjewitsch Stolypin (1814–1884)
• 1871–1884: Georg Friedrich von Staal (1822–1907)
• 1884-1892: Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Fredericks (1837-1892)
• 1902–1906: Ernst von Kotzebue (1838–1914)
• 1906–1910: Grigori Kantakuzen (1843–1902)
• 1910–1912: Konstantin Stael von Holstein (1853–1912)
• 1912–1914: Sergej Alexandrowitsch Lermontow (1861–1932)

See also

• List of the Soviet ambassadors in the GDR

literature

• Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, p. 339 ff .