The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Austria is the official representative of the
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and the
Government of the Russian Federation
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to the
President
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and the
Government of the Republic of Austria.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the
Embassy of Russia
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in
Vienna
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. The post of Russian Ambassador to Austria is currently held by , incumbent since 10 August 2015.
History of diplomatic relations
The first ambassador of Russia to Austria was Prince
Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn
Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn or Gallitzin ( Russian: Дмитрий Михайлович Голицын; German: ''Demetrius Michalowitsch von Gallitzin''; born 15 May 1721 in Abo, died 19 September 1793 in Vienna) was a Russian diplomat, ...
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
Count (later Prince) Andrey Kirillovich Razumovskyrussian: Андре́й Кири́ллович Разумо́вский, , german: Andreas von Rasumofsky (2 November 1752 – 23 September 1836) was a Russian Imperial diplomat who spent man ...
became ambassador in
Vienna
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, where he kept contact with representatives of the
European aristocracy, politicians and artists. While in Vienna, he built the
Palais Rasumofsky
Palais Rasumofsky (russian: Разумовски-пале) is a palace in Vienna, Austria.
The palace was commissioned by Prince Andrey Kyrillovich Razumovsky as a Neoclassic embassy worthy of the representative of Alexander I. It was built at ...
, and also financed construction of a stone bridge across the
Danube
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. As a
patron of the arts
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, Razumovsky established an art gallery, and commissioned
Beethoven
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to compose the famous
Razumovsky string quartets.
Austria
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is closely linked to the fate of prominent
Russia
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n
diplomat
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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
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, during which time he was able to preserve
diplomatic relations with Austria and helped to overcome the
international isolation
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of the
Russian Empire
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and reinforced Russia's status as a
great power
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. 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.
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.
After the collapse of the
Austro-Hungarian
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monarchy
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in 1918 and the proclamation of the
First Austrian Republic
The First Austrian Republic (german: Erste Österreichische Republik), officially the Republic of Austria, was created after the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 10 September 1919—the settlement after the end of World War I w ...
, diplomatic relations with the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were established on 25 February 1924. The first Soviet
Plenipotentiary in Vienna was
Jan Antonovich Berzin
Jan Antonovich Berzin (russian: Ян Антонович Берзин, ''Yan Antonovich Berzin'', lv, Jānis Bērziņš, pseudonym, alias Ziemelis; 11 October 1881 – 29 August 1938) was a Latvians, Latvian village teacher, later Bolsheviks, Bols ...
. Diplomatic relations were broken in March 1938 after the
German invasion of Austria and its incorporation into
Nazi Germany.
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
The Austrian State Treaty (german: Österreichischer Staatsvertrag ) or Austrian Independence Treaty re-established Austria as a sovereign state. It was signed on 15 May 1955 in Vienna, at the Schloss Belvedere among the Allied occupying po ...
, 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.
After the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
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, relations continued between the
Russian Federation and the Austrian state.
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