List of Russian ambassadors in Austria

The list of Russian ambassadors and envoys in Austria are the ambassadors and envoys of the Russian Empire ( Россійская Имперія Rossiyskaya Imperija ), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR Союз Советских Социалистических Республик Soyuz Sowjetskich Sozialistitscheskich Respublik ), now the Russian Federation ( Российская Федерация Rossiyskaya Federazija ) who were accredited at the court of the Habsburg Monarchy , the Austrian Empire , in Austria-Hungary and today the Republic of Austria .

history

Russian Embassy , around 1900

Diplomatic contacts between the two countries had existed since the middle of the 16th century at the time of Russian tsarism , but it wasn't until the end of the 18th century that contacts between the two great powers of Europe began to establish themselves in permanent representatives. Until the end of the 18th century, the delegates to the Viennese court were on the road with the Habsburgs on both imperial and tsarist matters, in 1801, after the First Coalition War , when some states of the Holy Roman Empire had defected and Prussia in particular remained neutral , and the collapse of the empire became foreseeable, the envoy is active in Russian-Austrian affairs.

For more than a century, from the coalition wars to before the First World War , Russia and the Habsburg Empire were mostly allies: after 1815 they were united with the other European states in the Holy Alliance with Prussia and bound in common interests on the border with the Ottoman Empire During the Crimean War of 1853–1856, which largely isolated Russia, the relationship was increasingly tense, but Austria supported Russia until the Holy Alliance was renewed in the 1873 Three Emperor Agreement .

A separate embassy was installed as early as 1874, and at the end of the 19th century a generous branch was built in Wien-Landstrasse , which includes the embassy in Vienna and the Russian Orthodox central parish church, today the metropolitan cathedral for Austria . In 1910 the ambassador was recalled, and from 1914 to 1917 the two states were at war until the February and October revolutions ended Russia's involvement in the war.

After the First World War (restoration of relations on February 25, 1924), relations were initially friendly, as both countries had socialist-oriented constitutions, but became tense again after the corporative state moved to the right. In autumn 1938, half a year after the Anschluss , the Soviet ambassador was withdrawn. After the Second World War, the victorious USSR had its own zone of occupation in eastern Austria for more than 10 years , with a responsible high commissioner. It was not until 1953 that the office of ambassador was re-established for the coming end of the occupation.

From the State Treaty of 1955, for which the agreement of the Soviet Union was particularly important, and Austria's neutrality , relations were intense and changeable, especially during the Cold War , when Austria became the diplomatic focal point between the blocs (tensions around the time of Hungarian Uprising in 1956 and the Prague Spring in 1968, in which Austria stood up for its neighboring countries). In perestroika 1990–1992, Austria explicitly emphasized the amicable continuity of relations.

List of Russian envoys and ambassadors

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
Ambassador and envoy of the Russian Empire in Austria 1701–1910
Russia  →  Habsburg / Austria / Austria
Peter Alexejewitsch Golitsyn		1701-1705
Heinrich von Huyssen		1705-1708
Johann Christoph von Urbich		1707-1712
Andrei Artamonowitsch Matwejew		1712-1715
Abraham Pawlowitsch Wesselowski		1715-1719
Ludwig Laschinsky		1720-1752
Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk		1752-1761
Dmitri Mikhailovich Golitsyn		1761-1792
Andrei Kirillowitsch Razumovsky		1792-1799
Stefan Alexejewitsch Kolytschew		1799-1800
Andrei Kirillowitsch Razumovsky		1801-1806	Ambassador to Austria
vacant		1806-1810
Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg		1810-1818	Envoy to Austria, 1814–1815 Envoy Extraordinary to the Congress of Vienna ; Before that, envoy to Sicily 1794–1799 , 1799–1802 in Helvetia , 1802–1807 in Holland , 1807–1810 in Prussia
Yuri Alexandrovich Golovkin		1818-1822	Envoy to Austria
vacant		1822-1826
Dmitri Pavlovich Tatishchev		1826-1841	Ambassador to Austria; before 1802–1803 and 1805–1808 ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples , 1815–1821 to Spain and the Netherlands
vacant		1841-1848
Pavel Ivanovich Medem		1848-1850	Envoy
Peter von Meyendorff		1850-1854	Envoy to Austria
Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov		1855-1856	Envoy in Austria; before 1850 envoy to the German Confederation ; then from 1856–1882 Foreign Minister , from 1863 also Chancellor
Andreas Fjodorowitsch von Budberg-Bönninghausen		1856-1858
vacant		1858-1860
Viktor Petrovich Balabin		1860-1864	Envoy to Austria
Ernest Gustawowitsch Stakelberg		1864–	Envoy in Austria; imperial adjudant general; before that 1856–1861 ambassador to Sardinia , 1861 to Spain , 1862 to Italy ; then 1868–1870 ambassador to France
Russia  →  Austria-Hungary
Ernest Gustawowitsch Stakelberg	s. O.	-1868	Envoy to Austria-Hungary; s. O.
Nikolai Alexejewitsch Orlov		1869-1870	Envoy to Austria-Hungary; previously in 1860 envoy to Belgium ; subsequently from 1872–1880 ambassador to France , 1885 to Germany
vacant		1870-1874
Evgeny Petrovich Novikov		1874-1879	Ambassador to Austria-Hungary
Pavel Petrovich Ubri		1879-1882	Ambassador to Austria-Hungary; Before that, first advisor to the envoy Gortschakow in Vienna in 1855 , first advisor in Paris in 1856 , envoy in Prussia in 1863 , in 1868 also with the German Confederation , in 1871 in the German Empire
Alexei Borissowitsch Lobanow-Rostowski		1882-1895	Ambassador to Austria-Hungary; before that, envoy to the Ottoman Empire in 1878 , and in the United Kingdom in 1879 ; then Foreign Minister 1895–1896
Pyotr Alexeyevich Capnist		1895-1904	Ambassador to Austria-Hungary
Lev Pavlovich Urusov		1905-1910	Ambassador to Austria-Hungary
Nikolai Nikolayevich de Giers		1910-1912	Ambassador to Austria-Hungary
Nikolai Nikolayevich Schebeko		1913-1914	Ambassador to Austria-Hungary
Ambassador of the Soviet Union in Austria 1924–1991
Soviet Russia  →  Austria
Voldemar Christianowitsch Aussem		1924-1924	Ambassador to Austria
Adolf Abramowitsch Joffe		1924-1925	Ambassador to Austria; before that 1922–1924 Ambassador to China , briefly Ambassador to Great Britain
Jan Antonowitsch Bersin		1925-1927	Ambassador to Austria
Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Jurenew		1927-1933	Ambassador to Austria
Adolf Markowitsch Petrowski		1933-1934	Ambassador to Austria
Iwan Leopoldowitsch Lorenz		1935-1938	Ambassador to Austria
vacant		1938-1953	German Reich , then occupation
Iwan Iwanowitsch Ilyichev		1953-1956	High Commissioner , Ambassador to Austria ; before 1942–1945 director of the GRU military intelligence service , 1952 ambassador to the GDR ; then from 1956 at the Foreign Ministry (3rd Europe Department) , 1966–1968 Ambassador to Denmark , then again at the Foreign Ministry
Andrei Andreevich Smirnov		1956-1956	Ambassador to Austria
Sergei Georgievich Lapin		1956-1960	Ambassador to Austria
Viktor Ivanovich Avilov		1960-1965	Ambassador to Austria
Boris Fyodorovich Podzerob		1965-1971	Ambassador to Austria
Awerki Borissowitsch Aristow		1971-1973	Ambassador to Austria; Before that, 1952 member of the CPSU Central Committee , 1952–1953 Secretary of the Central Committee and full member of the Presidium , 1955–1960 Secretary of the Central Committee , 1957–1961 full member of the Presidium , 1961–1971 Soviet Ambassador to Poland
Mikhail Timofejewitsch Eefremov		1975-1986	Ambassador to Austria
Gennady Serafimovich Shikin		1986-1990	Ambassador to Austria
Valery Nikolayevich Popov		1990–	Ambassador to Austria
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Austria since 1991
Russia  →  Austria
Valery Nikolayevich Popov	s. O.	-1996	Ambassador to Austria
Vladimir Mikhailovich Grinin		1996-2000	Ambassador to Austria; then 2003-2006 Russian Ambassador to Finland , 2006–2010 in Poland , since 2010 in Germany
Alexander Vasilievich Golovin		2000-2004	Ambassador to Austria
Stanislaw Wiliorowitsch Ossadtschij		2004-2010	Ambassador to Austria; Before that 1997–1999 Consul General Hamburg , 1999–2000 in Turkey
Sergei Yuryevich Nechayev		2010-2015	Ambassador to Austria; Prior to that, 1999 First Counselor in Germany , 2001 Consul General Bonn , 2003 at the Foreign Ministry (3rd / 4th Dept.)
Dmitry Lyubinsky		2015–	Ambassador to Austria

Source: Embassy of the Russian Federation, as of 2011

See also

• List of Austrian ambassadors in Russia
• Russian Orthodox Church in Austria , for interreligious dialogue

Web links

Commons : Ambassador of Russia to Austria  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Austria (www.rusemb.at)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} About the message → The predecessors ( memento of the original from January 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Russian Embassy (portrait gallery)
2. ↑ Agreement of the government of the Russian Federal Socialist Soviet Republic and the Austrian Federal Government to regulate the question of the embassy buildings on both sides of July 28, 1923 and July 16, 1927 , see decision of the Supreme Court of September 11, 2004, reference number 5Ob152 / 04w ( Weprepro , pdf, ilac.univie.ac.at)
3. ^ State formation under Karl Renner : first German Austria , but then in the constituent national assembly of the [First] Republic of Austria the Federal Constitutional Law 1920, coined by Hans Kelsen , was adopted
4. ↑ Raab and Figl's "phylloxera" feast is legendary for the image of relations with Moscow; in fact, it was a question of long-term, serious discussions, see the Austrian State Treaty
5. ↑ cf. for example exchange of notes on the contractual relations between Austria and the Russian Federation , ratified by the Austrian National Council, Federal Law Gazette No. 257/1994 , March 9, 1994 ( State treaties  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Other bilateral treaties Austria - Russian Federation , both bmeia.gv.at); also ÖAD 1992, No. 1, p. 92, cited in Andreas Zimmermann: State succession in international law treaties: At the same time a contribution to the possibilities and limits of international law codification (=  contributions to foreign public law and international law . Volume   141 ). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2000, ISBN 3-540-66140-9 , footnote 349, p. 95/96 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
6. ^ Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg, also Gustav Ottonowitsch Stakelberg (born June 5, 1766 in Reval, Estonia, † April 18, 1850 in Paris). "> Gustav Ernst Graf von Stackelberg (1766–1850) , von-stackelberg.de
7. ^ Erik Amburger database at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
8. ↑ accredited April 29, cf. Presidential Chancellery : Newly appointed ambassadors present their credentials to the Federal President . APA7OTS0210 / April 29, 2010 / 12:55 / Channel: Politics