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. 1801–1802: The Lord St HelensS. 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 1812: Edward Thornton Plenipotentiary to negotiate at Stockholm 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 Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim 1825–1826: The Viscount Strangford 1825–1828 : Edward Cromwell Disbrowe Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim 1828–1832: Sir William à Court, Bt 1828–1832: Hon. William Temple Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim 1832–1833: Sir Stratford Canning (nominally ambassador, but did not go) 1832–1835: Hon. John Duncan Bligh Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim 1835–1837: The Earl of Durham 1837–1838: John Ralph Milbanke Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim 1838–1841: The Marquess of Clanricarde 1841–1844: The Lord Stuart de Rothesay
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary 1844–1851 : John Bloomfield (succeeded as Baron Bloomfield while in post in 1846) 1851–1854 : Sir George Hamilton Seymour 1854–1856: No representation due to the Crimean War 1856–1858 : The Lord Wodehouse 1858–1860 : Sir John Crampton, Bt
Ambassadors NameTenure beginTenure endBritish monarchRussian monarch/leaderSir John Crampton, Bt18601861Queen VictoriaEmperor Alexander IIThe Lord Napier18611864Sir Andrew Buchanan, Bt18641867The Earl Vane18671871Lord Augustus Loftus18711879The Earl of Dufferin18791881Sir Edward Thornton18811884Emperor Alexander IIISir Robert Morier18841893Sir Frank Lascelles18941895Emperor Nicholas II→Emperor Michael IISir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor"Sir Nicholas O'Conor Dead," New York Times. 20 March 1908. 18951898Sir Charles Stewart Scott18981904Sir Charles Hardinge19041906King Edward VIISir Arthur Nicolson, Bt19061910Sir George Buchanan19101918King George V→King Edward VIII→King George VIno representation from 26 December 191819181924Vladimir LeninSir Robert MacLeod Hodgson19241927Joseph Stalinno representation following a crisis in 1927Harriette 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.19271929Sir Esmond Ovey19291933The Viscount Chilston19331939Sir William Seeds19391940King George VIHon. Sir Stafford Cripps19401942Sir Archibald Clark Kerr19421946Sir Maurice Peterson19461949Sir David Kelly 19491951Sir Alvary Gascoigne 19511953Sir William Hayter19531957Queen Elizabeth IIGeorgy Malenkov→Nikita KhrushchevSir Patrick Reilly19571960Nikita KhrushchevSir Frank Roberts19601962Sir Humphrey Trevelyan19621965Sir Geoffrey Harrison 19651968Leonid BrezhnevSir Duncan Wilson19681971Sir John Killick 19711973Sir Terence Garvey19731976Sir Howard Smith19761978Sir Curtis Keeble19781982Sir Iain Sutherland19821985Yuri Andropov→Konstantin Chernenko→Mikhail GorbachevSir Bryan Cartledge19851988Mikhail GorbachevSir Rodric Braithwaite19881992Sir Brian Fall19921995Boris YeltsinSir Andrew Wood19952000Sir Roderic Lyne20002004Vladimir PutinSir Anthony Brenton20042008Dame Anne Pringle2008 2011 Dmitry MedvedevSir Tim Barrow 20112015Dmitry Medvedev→Vladimir PutinSir Laurie Bristow 2016 2020 Vladimir PutinDame Deborah Bronnert January 20202023Queen Elizabeth II→King Charles III Nigel Casey November 2023 — King Charles III
See also List of ambassadors of Russia to the United Kingdom
References
External links UK and Russia, gov.uk