List of ambassadors of Russia to France
Diplomatic relations between Russia and France |
Russian Empire |
August 5, 1717 – Establishment of diplomatic relations |
1733 – Diplomatic relations broken off, War of the Polish Succession begins |
1738 – Restoration of diplomatic relations, War of the Polish Succession ends |
1748 – Diplomatic relations broken off, Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends War of the Austrian Succession |
1755 – Restoration of diplomatic relations |
1756 - Diplomatic Revolution, alliance for Seven Years' War |
1799–1800 – War of the Second Coalition |
1800 – Restoration of diplomatic relations |
August 28, 1804 – Diplomatic relations broken off, War of the Third Coalition |
June 26, 1807 – Restoration of diplomatic relations, Treaty of Tilsit |
1812 – Diplomatic relations severed, French invasion of Russia |
May 18, 1814 – Restoration of diplomatic relations, Treaty of Paris (1815) |
January 23, 1854 – Diplomatic relations severed, Crimean War |
March 18, 1856 – Restoration of diplomatic relations, Treaty of Paris (1856) |
August 21, 1891 – Franco-Russian Alliance |
1904 – Triple Entente formed |
Soviet Union |
October 26, 1917 – October Revolution, diplomatic relations severed |
October 28, 1924 – Diplomatic relations established |
November 29, 1932 – Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance |
June 30, 1941 – Diplomatic relations severed, Operation Barbarossa |
October 23, 1944 – Restoration of diplomatic relations |
Russian Federation |
February 7, 1992 – France recognizes the Russian Federation as successor to the USSR |
Russian-French contacts began on August 5, 1717, when the first Russian ambassador, sent by Tsar Peter I of Russia, presented his credentials to King Louis XV of France.[1] France responded by sending its first ambassador to Russia, Jacques Kompredon, in September 1721.[2] Since then, relations were fairly constant between the two countries, although they were severed and restored many times. Overall, relations between France and Russia have been very close, and French was even considered the unofficial second language of Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries.[3]
Relations between the two countries were severed in 1733 with the start of the War of the Polish Succession and resumed in 1738. Poor relations between the revolutionary government of France and the Russian Monarchy led to relations being severed in 1792. The Napoleonic Wars marked the start of new conflicts between Russia and France, which were not restored until the conclusion of the War of the Second Coalition between Russia and France in 1800. The War of the Third Coalition in 1805 led to the disruption of diplomatic relations once again, which were not restored until the signing of the Treaty of Paris on November 20, 1815. Russia and France conflicted over different views following the Revolutions of 1848 and the French support of revolutions in multinational countries. This led to the Crimean War on March 27, 1854, which ended with a Russian defeat on March 30, 1856.[4] Relations between the two countries improved after that, and remained uninterrupted until the October Revolution.[2]
French Prime Minister Édouard Herriot sent a telegram to Alexey Rykov, the President of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, on October 26, 1924, informing him of the French recognition of the establishment of the Soviet Union. When Germany declared war on the Soviet Union on June 30, 1941, the Vichy France government broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Relations were reestablished on October 23, 1944, with the Soviet recognition of the new Provisional Government of the French Republic. Since then, relations between the new nations remained unbroken, although they were cold at times during the Cold War.[2][5]
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, relations with France and the new Russian Federation were warm, and France recognized Russia as the successor of the USSR on February 7, 1992. The current Russian ambassador to France is Alexander Konstantinovich Orlov.[2][6]
Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the Kingdom of France
Name |
Photo |
Title |
Date from |
Date until |
Grigory Ivanovich Volkov | | Charge D'Affaires | July 1, 1711 | October 1712 |
Ivan Isaevich Lefort | | Charge D'Affaires | 1716 | 1717 |
Hans Christoph Shleynits | | Envoy | August 9, 1717 | 1720 |
Vasily Lukich Dolgorukoff | | Envoy | September 25, 1720 | March 16, 1722 |
Alexander Kurakin | | Ambassador | May 4, 1722 | 1724 |
Boris Kurakin | | Ambassador | 1724 | October 17, 1727 |
Alexander Kurakin | | Ambassador | October 17, 1727 | July 11, 1728 |
Alexander Golovkin Gavrilovic | | Envoy | 1729 | 1731 |
Sergei Khristoforovich Minich | | Charge D'Affaires | July 1731 | 1733 |
Antiokh Kantemir | | Envoy | April 18, 1738 | December 11, 1738 |
Antiokh Kantemir | | Ambassador | December 11, 1738 | September 24, 1742 |
Antiokh Kantemir | | Envoy | September 24, 1742 | March 31, 1744 |
Alexei Gross | | Chargé d'Affaires | March 31, 1744 | 1745 |
Alexei Gross | | Envoy | 1745 | June 1748 |
Fedor Behteev | | Charge D'Affaires | 1756 | July 11, 1757 |
Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Rumin | | Ambassador | August 10, 1756 | February 26, 1760 |
Peter Chernyshev | | Ambassador | July 4, 1760 | July 26, 1762 |
Sergei Vasilievich Saltykov | | Ambassador | 1762 | August 1763 |
Dmitry Golitsyn | | Ambassador | 1762 | 1768 |
Nikolai Konstantinovich Khotyn | | Chargé d'Affaires | 1767 | 1774 |
Ivan Baryatinskiy | | Ambassador | August 1773 | 1785 |
Ivan Matveevich Simolin | | Ambassador | March 14, 1784 | September 19, 1799 |
Source: Diplomats of the Russian Empire- France[4] |
Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the First French Empire
Name |
Photo |
Title |
Date from |
Date until |
Stepan Alexeevich Kolychev | | Ambassador | 1800 | July 1, 1801 |
Arkady Ivanovich Morkov | | Ambassador | July 1, 1801 | October 26, 1803 |
Peter Yakovlevich Ubri | | Chargé d'Affaires | November 15, 1803 | August 28, 1804 |
Petr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy | | Ambassador | August 31, 1807 | October 19, 1808 |
Grigory Ivanovich Gagarin | | Chargé d'Affaires | October 1808 | November 1808 |
Alexander Kurakin | | Ambassador | October 19, 1808 | November 10, 1812 |
Source: Diplomats of the Russian Empire- France[4] |
Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the Kingdom of France
Name |
Photo |
Title |
Date from |
Date until |
Carl Osipovich Pozzo di Borgo | | Envoy | April 1, 1814 | February 17, 1821 |
Carl Osipovich Pozzo di Borgo | | Ambassador | February 17, 1821 | January 5, 1835 |
Peter Palen | | Ambassador | March 11, 1835 | April 8, 1841 |
Nicholas Kiselev | | Chargé d'Affaires | October 30, 1841 | April 8, 1851 |
Source: Diplomats of the Russian Empire- France[4] |
Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the French Second Empire
Name |
Photo |
Title |
Date from |
Date until |
Nikolay Dmitrievich Kiselev | | Envoy | January 6, 1853 | January 23, 1854 |
Pavel Dmitrievich Kiselyov | | Ambassador | July 11, 1856 | September 15, 1862 |
Andrey Fedorovich Budberg | | Ambassador | November 3, 1862 | April 10, 1868 |
Ernest Gustavovich Stackelberg | | Ambassador | April 25, 1868 | April 30, 1870 |
Philipp Ivanovich Brunnov | | Ambassador (nominal) | May 21, 1870 | November 28, 1870 |
Source: Diplomats of the Russian Empire- France[4] |
Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to the Republic of France
Name |
Photo |
Title |
Date from |
Date until |
Leonid Borisovich Krasin | | Plenipotentiary | November 14, 1924 | October 30, 1925 |
Christian Rakovsky | | Plenipotentiary | October 30, 1925 | October 21, 1927 |
Valerian Savel'evich Dovgalevsky | | Plenipotentiary | October 21, 1927 | July 14, 1934 |
Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin | | Plenipotentiary | November 25, 1934 | April 4, 1937 |
Jacob Surits | | Plenipotentiary | April 4, 1937 | March 29, 1940 |
Alexander Efremovich Bogomolov | | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 23, 1944 | March 25, 1950 |
Alexei Pavlovich Pavlov | | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 25, 1950 | July 7, 1953 |
Sergey Vinogradov | | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 7, 1953 | March 24, 1965 |
Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin | | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 24, 1965 | September 18, 1971 |
Pyotr Abrasimov | | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 18, 1971 | April 9, 1973 |
Stepan Chervonenko | | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 3, 1973 | January 20, 1983 |
Yuli Vorontsov | | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 20, 1983 | June 19, 1986 |
James Ryabov | | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 19, 1986 | May 23, 1990 |
Yuri Dubinin | | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 1990 | 1991 |
Source: Reference History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union[7] |
Ambassadors of the Russian Federation to France
See also
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