List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia

Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Russian Federation Британский Посол в России
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
Incumbent Dame Anne Fyfe Pringle DCMG since 2008
Style	Her Excellency
Residence	Moscow
Appointer	Elizabeth II
Inaugural holder	Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St Helens First Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United kingdom to Russia John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield First Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton First Ambassador to Russia
Formation	1801 Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1844 Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary 1860 Ambasssadors
Website	UK Embassy in Russia

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 in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Russia. The official title is Her 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 the Soviet Union (from 1922 to 1991), was moved to Moscow in 1918.

The current Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia is Her Excellency Dame Anne Pringle who was appointed in 2008.

1 List of heads of mission
2 References

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: Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St Helens^[1]
1802–1804: Sir John Borlase Warren^[1]
1804–1806: Lord Granville Leveson-Gower^[1]
1805–1806: William Schaw Cathcart, 10th Lord Cathcart^[1]
1807: Alexander Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale Special Mission^[1]
1807: Lord Granville Leveson-Gower^[1] (again)
1807–1812: Diplomatic Relations suspended following Treaty of Tilsit
1812: Edward Thornton Plenipotentiary to negoatiate at Stockholm^[1]
1812–1820: William Schaw Cathcart, 1st Viscount Cathcart (created Earl Cathcart while in post in 1814)^[1]
1820–1825: Sir Charles Bagot^[1]
- 1820–1824: Hon. Frderick Cathcart Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim ^[2]
- 1824–1825: Edward Michael Ward Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim ^[2]
1825–1826: Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford^[1]
- 1825–1828 : Edward Cromwell Disbrowe Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim^[1]
1828–1832: Sir William à Court, 2nd Baronet^[1]
- 1828–1832: Hon. William Temple Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim ^[2]
1832–1833: Sir Stratford Canning (nominally ambassador, but did not go)^[1]
- 1832–1835: Hon. John Duncan Bligh Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim^[1]
1835–1837: John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham^[1]
1837–1838: John Ralph Milbanke Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim^[1]
1838–1841: Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde^[1]
1841–1844: Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay^[1]

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

1844-1851 : John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield (created Baron Bloomfield while in post in 1846)^[1]
1851-1854 : Sir George Hamilton Seymour^[1]
1854–1856: No representation due to the Crimean War
1856-1858 : John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse
1858-1860 : John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton

Ambassadors

Name	Tenure Begin	Tenure End	British monarch	Russian leader
John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton	1860	1861	Queen Victoria	Emperor Alexander II
The Rt Hon. Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier	1861	1864
Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet	1864	1867
George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry	1867	1871
The Rt Hon. Lord Augustus Loftus	1871	1879
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye	1879	1881
Sir Edward Thornton	1881	1884		Emperor Alexander III
Sir Robert Burnett David Morier	1884	1893		Emperor Alexander III
Sir Frank Lascelles	1894	1895		Emperor Nicholas II→ Emperor Michael II
Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor^[3]	1895	1898
Sir Charles Stewart Scott	1898	1904
The Rt Hon. Sir Charles Hardinge	1904	1906	King Edward VII
The Rt Hon. Sir Arthur Nicolson, 11th Baronet	1906	1910	King Edward VII
Sir George Buchanan	1910	1917	King George V→ King Edward VIII→ King George VI
no representation following the Russian Revolution	1917	1924		Vladimir Lenin
Sir Robert MacLeod Hodgson	1924	1929		Joseph Stalin
Sir Esmond Ovey(ru:Овей, Эсмонд)	1929	1933
The Rt Hon. Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston	1933	1939
Sir William Seeds	1939	1940	King George VI
Sir Stafford Cripps	1940	1942
The Rt Hon. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr	1942	1946
Sir Maurice Peterson	1946	1949
Sir David Victor Kelly (ru:Келли, Дэвид)	1949	1951
Sir Alvary Gascoigne (ru:Гаскойн, Альвари)	1951	1953
Sir William Goodenough Hayter	1953	1957	Queen Elizabeth II	Georgy Malenkov→ Nikita Khrushchev
Sir Patrick Reilly	1957	1960		Nikita Khrushchev
Sir Frank Roberts	1960	1962
Sir Humphrey Trevelyan	1962	1965
Sir Geoffrey Harrison ru:Харрисон, Джеффри	1965	1968		Leonid Brezhnev
Sir Duncan Wilson	1968	1971
Sir John Killick (ru:Киллик, Джон)	1971	1973
Sir Terence Garvey (ru:Гарви, Теренс)	1973	1976
Sir Sir Howard Smith	1976	1978
Sir Curtis Keeble	1978	1982
Sir Iain Sutherland(ru:Иэн Сазерленд)	1982	1985		Yuri Andropov→ Konstantin Chernenko→ Mikhail Gorbachev
Sir Bryan Cartledge	1985	1988		Mikhail Gorbachev
Sir Rodric Braithwaite	1988	1992		Mikhail Gorbachev
Brian Fall	1992	1995		Boris Yeltsin
Sir Andrew Marley Wood	1995	2000		Boris Yeltsin
Sir Roderic Lyne	2000	2004		Vladimir Putin
Sir Anthony Brenton	2004	2008		Vladimir Putin
Dame Anne Pringle	2008	2011		Dmitry Medvedev
Tim Barrow^[4]designate	2011			Dmitry Medvedev

References

British Embassy in Moscow

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
^ ^a ^b ^c Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personal of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 81–82.
^ "Sir Nicholas O'Conor Dead," New York Times. March 20, 1908.
^ "FCO - Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Russian Federation". http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?id=636711082&view=PressR. Retrieved 21 August 2011.

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