List of ambassadors of Russia to Italy

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Italian Republic
Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Incumbent Sergey Razov  [ ru ] since 6 May 2013
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Russia in Rome
Style	His Excellency
Reports to	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat	Rome
Appointer	President of Russia
Term length	At the pleasure of the President
Website	Russian Embassy in Rome

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Italian Republic is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Italy.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia at Via Gaeta, 5- 00185, Rome. ^[1] There are consulates general in Milan, Palermo, and Genoa, and honorary consulates in Florence, Udine, Ancona, Venice, Verona, Naples, Messina, Pisa and Bari. ^[2] The post of Russian Ambassador to Italy is currently held by Sergey Razov  [ ru ], incumbent since 6 May 2013. ^[3] The Russian ambassador to Italy is concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of Russia to San Marino. ^[4]

History of diplomatic relations

Main article: Italy–Russia relations

The first relations between Russia and the predecessor states of modern Italy were established in the late 16th century. ^[5] In 1862, Russia recognized the Kingdom of Italy and started to send its representatives. ^[6] In 1876, the missions of the two countries in Saint Petersburg and Rome were transformed into embassies. ^[6] After the February Revolution, Italy recognized the Russian Provisional Government, and later the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, de facto from 1921, and de jure from 1924. ^[6] Diplomatic relations were interrupted on 22 June 1941 by the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union.

List of representatives (1862 - present)

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Kingdom of Italy (1862 – 1917)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Ernst von Stackelberg	Envoy	11 August 1862	3 August 1864
Nikolai Kiselyov  [ ru ]	Envoy	3 August 1864	23 November 1869
Karl Ikskul von Gildenband  [ ru ]	Envoy (before 1 July 1876) Ambassador (after 1 July 1876)	13 December 1869	12 March 1891
Aleksandr Vangali  [ ru ]	Ambassador	12 March 1891	8 June 1897
Aleksandr Nelidov	Ambassador	1 July 1897	1904
Lev Urusov  [ ru ]	Ambassador	1904	1905
Nikolay Muraviev	Ambassador	14 January 1905	1 December 1908
Nikolai Dolgorukov  [ ru ]	Ambassador	1909	1912
Anatoly Krupensky  [ ru ]	Ambassador	1912	1915
Mikhail Girs	Ambassador	March 1915	2 March 1917

Representatives of the Russian Provisional Government to the Kingdom of Italy (1917)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Mikhail Girs	Ambassador	24 March 1917	26 October 1917

Representatives of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Kingdom of Italy (1921 - 1923)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Vatslav Vorovsky	Diplomatic representative	14 March 1921	10 May 1923

Representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Kingdom of Italy (1923 - 1946)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Nikolai Iordansky  [ ru ]	Diplomatic representative	23 July 1923	7 March 1924
Konstantin Yurenev	Plenipotentiary	7 March 1924	4 April 1925
Platon Kerzhentsev	Plenipotentiary	4 April 1925	26 November 1926
Lev Kamenev	Plenipotentiary	26 November 1926	7 January 1928
Dmitry Kursky	Plenipotentiary	28 January 1928	26 September 1932
Vladimir Potemkin	Plenipotentiary	26 September 1932	25 November 1934
Boris Shtein	Plenipotentiary	25 November 1934	7 October 1939
Nikolai Gorelkin  [ ru ]	Plenipotentiary (before 9 May 1941) Ambassador (after 9 May 1941)	8 October 1939	22 June 1941
Second World War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (1941 - 1944)
Mikhail Kostylyov  [ ru ]	Diplomatic representative (before 1 April 1945) Ambassador (after 1 April 1945)	20 March 1944	2 June 1946

Representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Republic of Italy (1946 - 1991)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Mikhail Kostylyov  [ ru ]	Ambassador	2 June 1946	9 February 1954
Aleksandr Bogomolov	Ambassador	9 February 1954	2 March 1957
Semyon Kozyrev  [ ru ]	Ambassador	2 March 1957	21 May 1966
Nikita Ryzhov  [ ru ]	Ambassador	21 May 1966	21 February 1980
Valentin Oberemko  [ ru ]	Ambassador	21 February 1980	2 July 1980
Nikolai Lunkov  [ ru ]	Ambassador	19 November 1980	12 April 1990
Anatoly Adamishin	Ambassador	12 April 1990	25 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Italy (1991 - present)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Anatoly Adamishin	Ambassador	25 December 1991	24 December 1992
Valery Kenyakin  [ ru ]	Ambassador	11 December 1993	9 October 1997
Nikolai Spassky  [ ru ]	Ambassador	14 November 1997	16 December 2003
Aleksey Meshkov  [ ru ]	Ambassador	20 January 2004	14 December 2012
Sergey Razov  [ ru ]	Ambassador	6 May 2013

See also

• Embassy of Italy in Moscow
• Foreign relations of Italy
• Foreign relations of Russia
• List of diplomatic missions of Russia

References

1. "Посольство Российской Федерации в Итальянской Республике" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 21 October 2019.
2. "Консульства" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 21 October 2019.
3. "Посол России в Италии" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 21 October 2019.
4. "Embassy of Russian Federation in Italy".
5. "Italy and the NEW RUSSIA". Institute of Europe. 2011.
6. "Italy-Russia relations". Embassy of the Russian Federation in Italy. January 1, 2015.

External links

• Representatives of the Russian Empire
• List of ambassadors of the Soviet Union in Italy (1924 - 1941)
• List of Soviet ambassadors in Italy (1944 - 1991)
• Embassy of Russia in Rome, Italy