UK Ambassador
to the Russian Federation
Британский Посол в России
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent
Nigel Casey
since 2023
StyleHis Excellency
Reports toSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
ResidenceMoscow
AppointerCharles III
Inaugural holderThe Lord St Helens
First Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to Russia

The Lord Bloomfield
First Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia

Sir John Crampton, Bt
First Ambassador to Russia
Formation1801
Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

1844
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

1860
Ambassadors
WebsiteBritish Embassy - Moscow

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 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 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.

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

Ambassadors

Name Tenure Begin Tenure End British monarch Russian monarch/leader
Sir John Crampton, Bt18601861Queen VictoriaEmperor Alexander II
The Lord Napier18611864
Sir Andrew Buchanan, Bt18641867
The Earl Vane18671871
Lord Augustus Loftus18711879
The Earl of Dufferin18791881
Sir Edward Thornton18811884Emperor Alexander III
Sir Robert Morier18841893
Sir Frank Lascelles18941895Emperor Nicholas II→
Emperor Michael II
Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor[3]18951898
Sir Charles Stewart Scott18981904
Sir Charles Hardinge19041906King Edward VII
Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bt19061910
Sir George Buchanan19101917King George V→
King Edward VIII→
King George VI
no representation following the Russian Revolution19171924Vladimir Lenin
Sir Robert MacLeod Hodgson19241927Joseph Stalin
no representation following a crisis in 1927[4]19271929
Sir Esmond Ovey19291933
The Viscount Chilston19331939
Sir William Seeds19391940King George VI
Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps19401942
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr19421946
Sir Maurice Peterson19461949
Sir David Kelly19491951
Sir Alvary Gascoigne19511953
Sir William Hayter19531957Queen Elizabeth IIGeorgy Malenkov→
Nikita Khrushchev
Sir Patrick Reilly19571960Nikita Khrushchev
Sir Frank Roberts19601962
Sir Humphrey Trevelyan19621965
Sir Geoffrey Harrison19651968Leonid Brezhnev
Sir Duncan Wilson19681971
Sir John Killick19711973
Sir Terence Garvey19731976
Sir Howard Smith19761978
Sir Curtis Keeble19781982
Sir Iain Sutherland19821985Yuri Andropov→
Konstantin Chernenko→
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sir Bryan Cartledge19851988Mikhail Gorbachev
Sir Rodric Braithwaite19881992
Sir Brian Fall19921995Boris Yeltsin
Sir Andrew Wood19952000
Sir Roderic Lyne20002004Vladimir Putin
Sir Anthony Brenton20042008
Dame Anne Pringle20082011Dmitry Medvedev
Sir Tim Barrow[5]20112015Dmitry Medvedev→
Vladimir Putin
Sir Laurie Bristow[6]20162020Vladimir Putin
Dame Deborah Bronnert[7]January 2020—

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
  2. 1 2 3 Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 81–82.
  3. ↑ "Sir Nicholas O'Conor Dead," New York Times. March 20, 1908.
  4. ↑ Harriette Flory: The Arcos Raid and the Rupture of Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1927, in: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Oct., 1977), pp. 707–723. Available here.
  5. ↑ "UK in Russia - Our Ambassador". Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ↑ "Dr Laurie Bristow CMG". gov.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  7. ↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Russia - January 2020". GOV.UK. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
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