List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia
Ambassadors

List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia

Section Title: Ambassadors
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Name	Tenure Begin	Tenure End	British monarch	Russian leader

Sir John Crampton, Bt	1860	1861	Queen Victoria	Emperor Alexander II

The Lord Napier	1861	1864

Sir Andrew Buchanan, Bt	1864	1867

The Earl Vane	1867	1871

Lord Augustus Loftus	1871	1879

The Earl of Dufferin	1879	1881

Sir Edward Thornton	1881	1884	Emperor Alexander III

Sir Robert Morier	1884	1893

Sir Frank Lascelles	1894	1895	Emperor Nicholas II→ Emperor Michael II

Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor	1895	1898

Sir Charles Stewart Scott	1898	1904

Sir Charles Hardinge	1904	1906	King Edward VII

Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bt	1906	1910

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	1927	Joseph Stalin

no representation following a crisis in 1927	1927	1929

Sir Esmond Ovey	1929	1933

The Viscount Chilston	1933	1939

Sir William Seeds	1939	1940	King George VI

Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps	1940	1942

Sir Archibald Clark Kerr	1942	1946

Sir Maurice Peterson	1946	1949

Sir David Kelly	1949	1951

Sir Alvary Gascoigne	1951	1953

Sir William 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	1965	1968	Leonid Brezhnev

Sir Duncan Wilson	1968	1971

Sir John Killick	1971	1973

Sir Terence Garvey	1973	1976

Sir Howard Smith	1976	1978

Sir Curtis Keeble	1978	1982

Sir Iain Sutherland	1982	1985	Yuri Andropov→ Konstantin Chernenko→ Mikhail Gorbachev

Sir Bryan Cartledge	1985	1988	Mikhail Gorbachev

Sir Rodric Braithwaite	1988	1992

Sir Brian Fall	1992	1995	Boris Yeltsin

Sir Andrew Wood	1995	2000

Sir Roderic Lyne	2000	2004	Vladimir Putin

Sir Anthony Brenton	2004	2008

Dame Anne Pringle	2008	2011	Dmitry Medvedev

Sir Tim Barrow	2011	2015	Dmitry Medvedev→ Vladimir Putin

Dr Laurie Bristow	2016	Vladimir Putin

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