List of Russian ambassadors in France

List of Russian and Soviet ambassadors in France .

history

The first permanent envoy of the Russian Empire to the French court was accredited in 1717. The establishment of permanent embassies for Russia was based on the desire of Peter the Great to open his country for and after " Europe of the Enlightenment ". Building on the experience of the Great Legation (1697–1698), he expanded his diplomatic network, which was only aimed at his direct neighbors ( Sweden , Poland and Turkey ), to all of Europe when he came to power . After Austria-Habsburg , the United Kingdom and a number of selected, medium-sized and smaller courts and republics, the legation in France was roughly the last piece of the puzzle.

Peter the Great appointed the former Saxon-Gotha court and government councilor Freiherr von Schleinitz (1661–1747) , who had been in his service since 1711, to an audience with King Louis XV. who received this in August 1717 to present his credentials and accepted it in office. In the “ Concert of the Great Powers ” of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Russian embassy experienced regular breaks and resumption of diplomatic relations: 1733–1738 as a result of the War of the Polish Succession , 1748–1756 as a result of the Peace of Aachen , 1804–1807 as a result of the Third Coalition War , 1812 –1814 as a result of the Russian campaign , 1854–1856 as a result of the Crimean War , and finally the end of the Tsarist Empire in 1917 as a result of the October Revolution . In 1924 relations with the Soviet Union were established; After the collapse of the Soviet Union , there was a gradual change in 1992 without interrupting diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation .

1861, d. H. During the tenure of Count Kisselev , the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral , seat of the exarchate of Orthodox parishes of Russian tradition in Western Europe , was inaugurated in the 8th arrondissement of Paris . A good two years later, i. H. During the tenure of Baron von Budberg-Bönninghausen , the Hôtel d'Estrées was acquired as the ambassador's residence . The Hôtel particulier , built in 1713 by the French court architect Robert de Cotte for the widow of the Duke of Estrées, is located in the Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin district of the 7th arrondissement of Paris , not far from the Quai d'Orsay .

Heads of mission

Note: if diplomatic rank is not shown in italics , the official concerned was an " ambassador "

Ambassador of the Russian Empire

1717: Establishment of diplomatic relations

• 1717–1720: Hans Christian von Schleinitz (1661–1747), envoy
• 1720–1722: Wassili Lukitsch Dolgorukow (1670–1739), envoy
• 1722–1724: Alexander Kurakin (1697–1749)
• 1724–1727: Boris Kurakin (1676–1727)
• 1727–1728: Alexander Kurakin (1697–1749)
• 1728–1731: Alexander Gawrilowitsch Golowkin (1689–1760), envoy
• 1731–1732: Ernst Johann von Münnich (1707–1788)

1732 to 1738: break in relations

• 1738–1744: Antioch Dmitrijewitsch Kantemir (1708–1744)
• 1744–1748: Heinrich Gross (1713–1765), envoy

1748 to 1756: break in relations

• 1756-1757: Fedor Dmitrievich spondylitis (1716-1761), chargé
• 1756–1760: Mikhail Petrowitsch Bestuschew-Ryumin (1688–1760)
• 1760–1762: Peter Grigoriewitsch Tschernikow (1712–1773)
• 1762–1763: Sergei Wassiljewitsch Saltykow (1726–1765)
• 1762–1768: Dmitri Alexejewitsch Golitsyn (1734–1803)
• 1767–1774: Nikolai Konstantinowitsch Chotyn (1727–1811)
• 1773–1785: Ivan Sergejewitsch Baryatinsky (1738–1811)
• 1784–1799: Johann Edler von Simolin (1720–1799)
• 1800–1801: Stefan Alexejewitsch Kolytschew (1746–1805)
• 1801–1803: Arkady Iwanowitsch Morkow (1747–1827)
• 1803-1804: Peter von Oubril (1774-1848), chargé

1804 to 1807: break in relations

• 1807–1808: Peter Alexandrowitsch Tolstoy (1770–1844)
• 1808–1809: Nikolai Petrovich Rumjanzew (1754–1826)
• 1808–1812: Alexander Borissowitsch Kurakin (1752–1818)

1812 to 1814: break in relations

• 1814–1835: Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (1764–1842)
• 1835–1851: Peter von der Pahlen (1777–1864)
• 1851–1854: Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Kisseljow (1802–1869), envoy

1854 to 1856: break in relations

• 1856–1862: Pawel Dmitrijewitsch Kisseljow (1788–1872)
• 1862–1868: Andreas Fjodorowitsch von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1817–1881)
• 1868–1870: Ernst Johann von Stackelberg (1813–1870)
• 1871–1884: Nikolai Alexejewitsch Orlow (1820–1885)
• 1884–1897: Arthur von Mohrenheim (1824–1906)
• 1897–1904: Lev Pawlowitsch Urussow (1839–1828)
• 1904–1910: Alexander Nelidow (1838–1910)
• 1910–1917: Alexander Petrowitsch Iswolski (1856–1919)

1917: end of relations

Ambassador of the Soviet Union

1924: Establishment of diplomatic relations

• 1924–1925: Leonid Borissowitsch Krassin (1870–1926)
• 1925–1927: Christian Georgijewitsch Rakowski (1873–1941)
• 1927–1934: Valerian Saweljewitsch Dowgalewski (1885–1934)
• 1934–1937: Vladimir Petrovich Potjomkin (1874–1946)
• 1937–1940: Jakow Sacharowitsch Suriz (1882–1952)
• 1940–1941: Alexander Efremowitsch Bogomolow (1900–1969)

1941 to 1944: break in relations

• 1944–1950: Alexander Efremowitsch Bogomolow (1900–1969)
• 1950–1953: Alexei Pawlowitsch Pawlow (1905–1982)
• 1953-1965: Sergei Alexandrowitsch Winogradow (1907-1970)
• 1965–1971: Valerian Alexandrowitsch Sorin (1902–1986)
• 1971–1973: Pyotr Andrejewitsch Abrassimow (1912–2009)
• 1973–1983: Stephan Wassiljewitsch Tschernenko (1915–2003)
• 1983–1986: July Michailowitsch Voronzow (1929–2007)
• 1986–1990: Jakow Rjabow (* 1928)
• 1990–1991: Yuri Vladimirovich Dubinin (1930–2013)

Ambassador of the Russian Federation

Avdejew (2009)

• 1992–1998: Yuri Ryschow (* 1930)
• 1998–2002: Nikolaj Afanasewski (1940–2005)
• 2002–2008: Alexander Alexejewitsch Avdejew (* 1946)
• 2008–2017: Alexander Konstantinowitsch Orlow (* 1948)
• since 2017: Alexei Jurjewitsch Meschkow (* 1959)

Web links

Commons : Russian Ambassador to France  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• France in the feed of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Erik Amburger : "The permanent diplomatic representatives abroad". History of the organization of authorities in Russia: from Peter the Great until 1917 , EJ Brill, Leiden 1966, p. 450
2. ^ ^{A b c} Gustav von Schleinitz: History of the Schleinitz family, from a member of the family , Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1897, pp. 260–272
3. ↑ ^{a b} Schleinitz, Hans Christian von in the Erik Amburger database of the Institute for East and Southeast European Research , Regensburg
4. ^ Münnich, Ernst Johann von in the Erik Amburger database of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies , Regensburg
5. ^ Edler von Simolin, Johann Matthias in the Erik Amburger database of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies , Regensburg
6. ^ Stackelberg, Ernst Johann von in the Erik Amburger database of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies , Regensburg