List of ambassadors of Russia to Austria

A late-19th-century photograph of the building purchased by Lobanov-Rostovsky in 1891, and which still houses the Embassy of Russia in Vienna.

The first Ambassador of Russia to Austria was Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn and he served in this position from 1763 until 1792. Gallitzinstraße, the street where his ambassadorial villa was located is named after him. In 1792 Count Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky became ambassador in Vienna, where he kept contact with representatives of the European aristocracy, politicians and artists. While in Vienna, he built the Palais Rasumofsky, and also financed construction of a stone bridge across the Danube. As a patron of the arts, Razumovsky established an art gallery, and commissioned Beethoven to compose the famous Razumovsky string quartets.[1][2]

Austria is closely linked to the fate of prominent Russian diplomat and statesman Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov. He arrived in Vienna in 1833 as an adviser to the embassy, and, from 1854 to 1856, he led the Russian diplomatic mission. Gorchakov became Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Austrian court at the most difficult period for Russia during the Crimean War, during which time he was able to preserve diplomatic relations with Austria and helped to overcome the international isolation of the Russian Empire and reinforced Russia's status as a great power. The Vienna Conference in 1855 was the first presence of Gorchakov in an international forum, and his performance in representing Russia at the Paris Conference of 1856 saw Alexander II appoint him as Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs.[1]

In 1882, scientist and diplomat Prince Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky was appointed as the Empire's representative in Vienna. In 1891 he bought several houses on Reisnerstraße from Adolphe I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, the former Duke of Nassau, which still houses the embassy and consular section in Vienna, and he also began construction of the Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral.[1]

After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1918 and the proclamation of the First Austrian Republic, diplomatic relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were established on 25 February 1924. The first Soviet Plenipotentiary in Vienna was Yan Antonovich Berzin. Diplomatic relations were broken in March 1938 after the German invasion of Austria and its incorporation into Nazi Germany.[1] After the Second World War, the USSR and Austria re-established diplomatic relations at the level of political representation, which in 1953 was converted into embassies. The preamble of the Austrian State Treaty, signed on 15 May 1955 by the USSR, United States, United Kingdom, France and Austria, established that the treaty formed the basis of Soviet relations with Austria.[1][3] After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, relations continued between the Russian Federation and the Austrian state.[1]

Ambassadors

Name Photo Title Date from Date until Russian state Austrian state
Dmitry Mikhailovich GolitsynAmbassadorOctober 1761April 1792Russian EmpireHoly Roman Empire
Andrey Kirillovich RazumovskyAmbassador5 October 18017 September 1806Russian EmpireHoly Roman Empire/Austrian Empire
Gustav Ernst Graf von StackelbergAmbassador14 May 18109 November 1818Russian EmpireAustrian Empire
Yury Aleksandrovich GolovkinEnvoy9 November 181816 September 1822Russian EmpireAustrian Empire
Dmitry Pavlovich TatishchevAmbassador22 August 182611 September 1841Russian EmpireAustrian Empire
Pavel Ivanovich MedemEnvoy24 December 184831 August 1850Russian EmpireAustrian Empire
Peter von MeyendorffEnvoy31 August 18507 January 1854Russian EmpireAustrian Empire
Aleksandr Mikhailovich GorchakovEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary6 May 185415 April 1856Russian EmpireAustrian Empire
Viktor Petrovich BalabinEnvoy22 July 186412 August 1864Russian EmpireAustrian Empire
Ernest Gustavovich StackelbergEnvoy3 August 186425 April 1868Russian EmpireAustrian Empire/Austria-Hungary
Nikolay Alexeyevich OrlovEnvoy13 December 18692 May 1870Russian EmpireAustria-Hungary
Yevgeny Petrovich NovikovAmbassador2 March 187422 December 1879Russian EmpireAustria-Hungary
Pavel Petrovich UbriAmbassador22 December 18791 June 1882Russian EmpireAustria-Hungary
Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-RostovskyAmbassador13 July 18826 January 1895Russian EmpireAustria-Hungary
Pyotr Alekseyevich KapnistAmbassador9 April 18951904Russian EmpireAustria-Hungary
Lev Pavlovich UrusovAmbassador19051910Russian EmpireAustria-Hungary
Voldemar Khristianovich AussemPlenipotentiary Representative21 May 192410 December 1924Soviet UnionFederal State of Austria
Adolf Abramovich IoffePlenipotentiary Representative12 December 192419 June 1925Soviet UnionFederal State of Austria
Yan Antonovich BerzinPlenipotentiary19 June 19257 September 1927Soviet UnionFederal State of Austria
Konstantin Konstantinovich YurenevPlenipotentiary1 October 192724 January 1933Soviet UnionFederal State of Austria
Adolf Markovich PetrovskyPlenipotentiary1 April 193310 November 1934Soviet UnionFederal State of Austria
Ivan Leopoldovich LorentsPlenipotentiary17 March 193531 September 1938Soviet UnionFederal State of Austria
Ivan Ivanovich IlyichevSupreme Commissar of the USSR/Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary[4]13 June 195331 March 1956Soviet UnionRepublic of Austria
Andrey Andreyevich SmirnovAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary31 March 195614 October 1956Soviet UnionRepublic of Austria
Sergey Georgyevich LapinAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary19 October 195616 June 1960Soviet UnionRepublic of Austria
Viktor Ivanovich AvilovAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary16 June 196013 June 1965Soviet UnionRepublic of Austria
Boris Fedorovich PodtserobAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary30 June 196520 September 1971Soviet UnionRepublic of Austria
Averky Borisovich AristovAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary20 September 197111 July 1973Soviet UnionRepublic of Austria
Mikhail Timofeyevich YefremovAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary10 March 197524 October 1986Soviet UnionRepublic of Austria
Gennady Serafimovich ShikinAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary24 October 198624 May 1990Soviet UnionRepublic of Austria
Valery Nikolayevich PopovAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary24 May 199030 August 1996Soviet Union/Russian FederationRepublic of Austria
Vladimir Mikhailovich GrininAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary30 August 199629 April 2000Russian FederationRepublic of Austria
Alexander Vasiliyevich GolovinAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary4 August 20006 August 2004Russian FederationRepublic of Austria
Stanislav Viliorovich OsadchyAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary14 September 20049 March 2010Russian FederationRepublic of Austria

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Краткая история Российско-австрийских дипломатических отношений (in Russian). Embassy of Russia in Vienna. Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2009-03-10.
  2. ↑ Abraham, Gerald (1982). The Age of Beethoven, 1790–1830. Oxford University Press. p. 288. ISBN 0-19-316308-X.
  3. ↑ "State Treaty (with annexes and maps) for the re-establish ment of an independent and democratic Austria" (PDF). Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, France and Austria. 15 May 1955. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  4. ↑ Khrushchev, Sergey (2007). "Before and After the Peace Treaty with Austria". Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. Penn State Press. pp. 28–29. ISBN 0-271-02935-8. Ivan Ivanovich Ilyichev (1905–83) was the first ambassador of the USSR to postwar Austria in 1955–56... Prior to this he was...supreme commissar of the USSR in Austria (1953–1955).

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