List of ambassadors of Russia to the United Kingdom explained

Post:Ambassador
Body:the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom
Incumbent:Andrey Kelin
Insignia:MID emblem.png
Incumbentsince:5 November 2019
Department:Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia, London
Style:His Excellency
The Honourable
Reports To:Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat:London
Appointer:President of Russia
Termlength:No fixed term
First:
as ambassador to the Kingdom of England
Formation:1556
Website:Embassy of Russia in London
Insigniacaption:Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Residence:Harrington House

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or formally the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Court of St James's, is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the Monarch and the Government of the United Kingdom.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Russian Embassy in London, while the official residence of the ambassador is 13 Kensington Palace Gardens. There is a consulate general in Edinburgh.[1]

The post of ambassador to the United Kingdom is currently held by Andrey Kelin, incumbent since 5 November 2019.[2]

History of diplomatic relations

See main article: Russia–United Kingdom relations.

The United Kingdom established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1924. However, King George V was still upset over the execution of the Romanov family and refused to receive the Soviet ambassador. In a breach of diplomatic protocol, he dispatched the Prince of Wales to accept the Soviet ambassador's credentials.[3] [4]

List of representatives (1556–present)

Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to the Kingdom of England (1556–1707)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Chief of embassy15561557
Chief of embassy15821583
Chief of embassy16001601
Chief of embassy16131613
Chief of embassy16621662

Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1720)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Andrey MatveyevChief of missionMay 17071708
Boris KurakinMinister Plenipotentiary17101711
Resident17111713
Bertram von ShakResident17131717
Resident9 June 1717February 1720
Mikhail Bestuzhev-RyuminResidentMarch 172014 November 1720
Great Northern War

Diplomatic relations interrupted (1720–1730)

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Kingdom of Great Britain (1731–1801)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Antiokh KantemirResident (before 17 July 1733)
Envoy (after 17 July 1733)		24 December 1731April 1738
Envoy17381739
EnvoyJune 1739March 1742
Envoy31 December 1741June 1743
Envoy20 June 1743August 1746
Pyotr ChernyshyovEnvoy14 July 174620 March 1755
Aleksandr GolitsynEnvoy17551762
Alexander VorontsovEnvoyFebruary 17621764
Envoy9 December 17631765
Chargé d'affaires17651766
EnvoyDecember 1765July 1768
Ivan ChernyshevEnvoy1768August 1769
Envoy12 August 17695 May 1779
Chargé d'affaires17751777
Chargé d'affaires17781778
Envoy5 May 177914 March 1784
Semyon VorontsovEnvoy24 May 17844 May 1800
Chargé d'affaires17851785
Chargé d'affaires4 May 1800September 1800
Malta Question

Diplomatic relations by chargé d'affaires (1800–1801)

Yakov SmirnovChargé d'affaires29 September 180025 May 1801

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1917)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Semyon VorontsovAmbassador25 May 180115 May 1806
Pavel StroganovChargé d'affaires10 May 18067 December 1806
Maxim AlopeusSpecial envoy7 December 18062 February 1808
Anglo-Russian War

Diplomatic relations suspended (1808–1812)

Special envoy30 August 181230 September 1812
Chargé d'affaires30 August 181218 September 1812
Khristofor LivenAmbassador18 September 181222 May 1834
Minister Plenipotentiary7 July 183023 October 1830
Pavel MedemChargé d'affaires20 June 183431 January 1835
Carlo Pozzo di BorgoAmbassador5 January 183526 December 1839
Chargé d'affaires18391840
Phillip BrunnovEnvoy17 June 184018 December 1854
Crimean War

Diplomatic relations suspended (1854–1856)

Envoy30 June 18568 February 1858
Phillip BrunnovEnvoy (before 4 December 1860)
Ambassador (after 4 December 1860)		8 February 185821 May 1870
Nikolay OrlovAmbassador appointee21 May 187028 November 1870Was not accredited
Phillip BrunnovAmbassador28 November 187022 July 1874
Pyotr ShuvalovAmbassador22 July 187419 October 1879
Aleksei Lobanov-RostovskiiAmbassador22 December 187913 July 1882
Chargé d'affaires18821882
Arthur von MohrenheimAmbassador13 July 18828 February 1884
Yegor StaalAmbassador27 March 188430 August 1902
Alexander von BenckendorffAmbassador190229 December 1916
Chargé d'affaires19161917
Sergey SazonovAmbassadorJanuary 19173 March 1917
Chargé d'affaires19191924Unaccredited by the post-Imperial Russian government

Representatives of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1918–1923)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Maxim LitvinovAuthorised representative
Plenipotentiary (after June 1918)		January 1918September 1918Not accredited
Leonid KrasinPlenipotentiary1920July 1923Not accredited

Representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1923–1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Christian RakovskyPlenipotentiaryJuly 192330 October 1925Accredited from 1 February 1924
Leonid KrasinPlenipotentiary30 October 192524 November 1926
Arkady RosengoltsPlenipotentiary192626 May 1927
Grigori SokolnikovPlenipotentiaryNovember 192914 September 1932
Ivan MaiskyPlenipotentiary (before 9 May 1941)
Ambassador (after 9 May 1941)		8 November 193212 August 1943
Fedor GusevAmbassador12 August 194322 August 1946
Georgy ZarubinAmbassador28 September 194613 June 1952
Andrei GromykoAmbassador13 June 1952May 1953
Yakov MalikAmbassadorMay 195311 January 1960
Ambassador11 January 196025 January 1966
Mikhail SmirnovskyAmbassador25 January 196627 April 1973
Ambassador27 April 19735 November 1980
Ambassador20 November 198010 April 1986
Leonid ZamyatinAmbassador10 April 198618 November 1991
Boris PankinAmbassador19 November 199125 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom (1991–present)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Boris PankinAmbassador25 December 199116 September 1993
Anatoly AdamishinAmbassador5 September 19946 June 1997
Ambassador6 June 199720 January 2000
Grigory KarasinAmbassador6 March 20009 June 2005
Yuri FedotovAmbassador9 June 200527 August 2010
Alexander YakovenkoAmbassador24 January 201126 August 2019
Andrey KelinAmbassador5 November 2019

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom . Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 30 October 2019.
  2. Web site: Andrei Kelin appointed as Russia's Ambassador to the UK. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 5 November 2019. 7 November 2019.
  3. Book: Bilainkin . George . Maisky, Ten Years Ambassador . 1944 . G. Allen & Unwin Limited . 73–74.
  4. News: Davison . Janet . Prince Charles and Vladimir Putin: Can royals wade into politics? . CBC News . 21 May 2014 . King George V, who reigned from 1910 to 1936, was close to his lookalike cousin, Czar Nicholas II, but refused to meet a number of Soviet ambassadors following the revolution there. "He claimed to be unwell and [did] not receive the Soviet ambassador because he blamed the Bolshevik regime for the murder of his cousin, Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918," says Harris..

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