From 1880 to 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Embassy was Sergejewskaja 10, Saint Petersburg, 1914.
In 1703 Peter I founded Saint Petersburg, which was the capital of the Russian Empire from 1710 to 1918. Until 1880, the Austrian embassy was located there at 102 Fontanka River Embankment, (Anglijskaja Nabereschnaja, English Quay).
On 6 August 1914 Franz Joseph I declared war on Tsar Nicholas II and Denmark became a protecting power in Russia.
At the beginning of July 1918 Consul General Georg de Pottere[de] (1875–1951) was sent to Moscow "to settle the questions of the resumption of Russian public debt service left open in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk." The negotiations ended in the last days of July. On 11 July 1918 the Moscow government granted the agreement to Otto von Franz, who was appointed ambassador to Moscow on 6 August 1918. Neither Georg de Pottere nor Otto von Franz took office before 9 November 1918.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990/91, the ambassador was responsible for almost all successor states but were, eventually replaced by new embassies. As of 2015 the official area consists of Belarus and the Russian Federation ("Russia"), the Austrian Embassy in Moscow also entrusts Armenia (which has had an ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2012), and Uzbekistan in its consular district.[1]
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