The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia (
Russian: Британский Посол в России) is the
United Kingdom's foremost
diplomatic representative in the
Russian Federation and head of the UK's
diplomatic mission 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
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in
Saint Petersburg was reduced from Ambassador to Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. The capital of Russia, and later of the
Soviet Union (from 1922 to 1991), moved to
Moscow in 1918.
List of heads of mission
For the envoys to Russia from the
Court of St James's
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before the creation of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, see
List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Russia (for the period until 1707) and
List of ambassadors of Great Britain to Russia (for the years 1707 to 1800).
Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
:1800-1801: ''Diplomatic Relations were suspended during the
Second League of Armed Neutrality''.
*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
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''Special Mission''
*1807:
Lord Granville Leveson-Gower (again)
*1807–1812: ''Diplomatic Relations suspended following
Treaty of Tilsit''
*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''
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**1824–1825: ]Edward Michael Ward
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''Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim''[
*1832–1833: Sir Stratford Canning (nominally ambassador, but did not go)]John Ralph Milbanke
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''Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim''
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary
* 1844–1851 : John Bloomfield (succeeded as Baron Bloomfield while in post in 1846)
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
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