The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia (
Russian
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*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: Британский Посол в России) is the
United Kingdom
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's foremost
diplomatic representative in the
Russian Federation
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and head of the UK's
diplomatic mission
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in Russia. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Russian Federation.
Between 1844 and 1860 the status of the
head of mission in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
was reduced from Ambassador to Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. The capital of Russia, and later of the
Soviet Union
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(from 1922 to 1991), moved to
Moscow
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in 1918.
List of heads of mission
For the envoys to Russia from the
Court of St James's before the creation of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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in 1801, see
List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Russia
The ambassador of the Kingdom of England to Russia was the Kingdom of England's foremost diplomatic representative in Russia, otherwise known as Muscovy, heading the English diplomatic mission.
List of heads of mission Ambassadors and other e ...
(for the period until 1707) and
List of ambassadors of Great Britain to Russia
The ambassador of Great Britain to Russia was the foremost diplomatic representative in Russia of the Kingdom of Great Britain, a state created in 1707 by the Union of England and Scotland. The British ambassador was the head of the diplomatic m ...
(for the years 1707 to 1800).
Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
:1800-1801: ''Diplomatic Relations were suspended during the
Second League of Armed Neutrality
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''.
*1801–1802:
The Lord St Helens[S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852'' (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).]
*1802–1804:
Sir John Borlase Warren, Bt
*1804–1806:
Lord Granville Leveson-Gower
*1805–1806:
The Lord Cathcart
*1807:
Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale ''Special Mission''
*1807:
Lord Granville Leveson-Gower (again)
*1807–1812: ''Diplomatic Relations suspended following
Treaty of Tilsit
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''
*1812:
Edward Thornton ''Plenipotentiary'' to negotiate at
Stockholm
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*1812–1820:
The Viscount Cathcart (created Earl Cathcart while in post in 1814)
*1820–1825:
Sir Charles Bagot
**1820–1824:
Hon. Frederick Cathcart ''Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim''
[
**1824–1825: ]Edward Michael Ward
Edward Michael Ward (5 February 1789 – 12 September 1832) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.
He was the oldest son of Robert Ward and his first wife Sophia Frances Whaley, third daughter of Richard Chapel Whaley. His younger brother James was a vice- ...
''Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim''Edward Cromwell Disbrowe
Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe GCG (1790–1851) was a British politician and diplomat.
Life
Sir Edward Disbrowe was born at Walton Hall, Walton-on-Trent, South Derbyshire, the son of Colonel Edward Disbrowe, and his wife Lady Charlotte Ho ...
''Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim''[
*1832–1833: Sir Stratford Canning (nominally ambassador, but did not go)]
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary
* 1844–1851 : John Bloomfield (succeeded as Baron Bloomfield while in post in 1846)Crimean War
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Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
''
* 1856–1858 : The Lord Wodehouse
* 1858–1860 : Sir John Crampton, Bt
Ambassadors
Arms
List of ambassadors of Russia to the United Kingdom
References
External links
UK and Russia
gov.uk
{{Lists of heads of UK diplomatic missions
Russia
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United Kingdom
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