# List of ambassadors of Austria to Russia

The ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Russia is the Republic of Austria's foremost diplomatic representative in Russia. As head of Austria's diplomatic mission there, the ambassador is the official representative of the president and government of Austria to the Russian Federation. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and the embassy is located in Moscow.

## History

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.

## Heads of Mission

1700: Establishment of diplomatic relations
| Appointed / Accredited | Name | Title/notes | Appointed during | Accredited during | Left post |
| 1526 Habsburg monarchy Austria → Russia | 1526 Habsburg monarchy Austria → Russia | 1526 Habsburg monarchy Austria → Russia | | | |
| June 20, 1721 | Stephan Wilhelm Kinsky | | Charles VI | Peter I | July 28, 1722 |
| July 28, 1722 | Nicolaus von Hochholzer | Chargé d'affaires | Charles VI | Peter I | December 21, 1725 |
| December 21, 1725 | Amadeus de Bussy-Rabutin | | Charles VI | Catherine I | August 30, 1727 |
| August 30, 1727 | Lorenz von Caramé | Chargé d'affaires | Charles VI | Catherine I | June 26, 1728 |
| June 26, 1728 | Franz Wratislaw | | Charles VI | Peter II | September 28, 1732 |
| September 28, 1732 | Nikolaus von Hochholzer | | Charles VI | Anna | August 11, 1734 |
| August 11, 1734 | Johann Franz Heinrich Carl von Ostein | | Charles VI | Anna | December 17, 1738 |
| December 17, 1738 | Antoniotto Botta Adorno | | Charles VI | Anna | October 9, 1742 |
| December 26, 1742 | Nikolaus von Hochholzer | | Maria Theresa | Elizabeth | June 22, 1744 |
| June 22, 1744 | Philipp von Orsini-Rosenberg | | Maria Theresa | Elizabeth | September 1, 1745 |
| October 30, 1745 | Nikolaus von Hochholzer | | Maria Theresa | Elizabeth | February 24, 1746 |
| February 24, 1746 | Johann Franz von Pretlack | Ambassador | Maria Theresa | Elizabeth | May 19, 1748 |
| May 20, 1748 | Josef Bernes | Ambassador | Maria Theresa | Elizabeth | April 17, 1751 |
| September 18, 1751 | Johann Franz von Pretlack | Ambassador | Maria Theresa | Elizabeth | January 10, 1753 |
| April 16, 1753 | Nikolaus Esterházy de Galantha | Ambassador | Maria Theresa | Elizabeth | May 22, 1761 |
| June 15, 1761 | Florimond Claude von Mercy-Argenteau | Ambassador | Maria Theresa | Elizabeth | October 6, 1763 |
| November 3, 1763 | Joseph Maria Karl von Lobkowitz | | Maria Theresa | Catherine II | May 25, 1777 |
| June 15, 1777 | Josef von Kaunitz-Rietberg | | Maria Theresa | Catherine II | September 12, 1779 |
| October 24, 1779 | Johann Ludwig von Cobenzl | | Maria Theresa | Catherine II | April 25, 1784 |
| April 25, 1784 | Johann Ludwig von Cobenzl | Ambassador | Joseph II | Catherine II | May 17, 1800 |
| May 17, 1800 | Johann Locatelli | Chargé d'affaires | Joseph II | Paul I | August 18, 1801 |
| August 18, 1801 | Franz von Saurau | Ambassador | Francis II | Alexander I | October 16, 1802 |
| October 16, 1802 | Josef von Hudelist | Chargé d'affaires | Francis II | Alexander I | April 28, 1803 |
| April 28, 1803 | Johann Philipp von Stadion | Ambassador | Francis II | Alexander I | October 1, 1805 |
| Alexander I |||
| October 1, 1805 | Teodoro Sanchez d’Aguilar | Chargé d'affaires in Riga | Francis II | Alexander I | August 14, 1806 |
| August 14, 1806 | Maximilian von Merveldt | Ambassador | Francis II | Alexander I | May 2, 1808 |
| 1806 | Karl Binder von Krieglstein | Chargé d'affaires | Francis II | Alexander I | |
| December 27, 1808 | Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg | Ambassador | Francis II | Alexander I | May 28, 1809 |
| 1808 | Interruption of relations | | Francis II | Alexander I | |
| October 26, 1809 | Josef von Saint-Julien | | Francis II | Alexander I | June 23, 1812 |
| 1809 | Position vacant | | Francis II | Alexander I | |
| June 6, 1815 | Johann von Provost | Chargé d'affaires | Francis II | Alexander I | April 19, 1816 |
| April 19, 1816 | Ludwig von Lebzeltern | | Francis II | Alexander I | |
| 1816 | Heinrich von Bombelles | Chargé d'affaires | Francis II | Alexander I | |
| June 10, 1827 | Stephan Zichy | Ambassador | Francis II | Nicholas I | June 21, 1828 |
| 1827 | Maximilian von Kaiserfeld | Chargé d'affaires | Francis II | Nicholas I | |
| January 17, 1829 | Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont | Ambassador | Francis II | Nicholas I | August 2, 1840 |
| 1829 | Otto von Meysenbug | Chargé d'affaires | Francis II | Nicholas I | |
| 1843 | Franz de Paula von Colloredo-Wallsee | | Ferdinand I | Nicholas I | 1847 |
| November 29, 1848 | Karl Ferdinand von Buol-Schauenstein | | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas I | February 13, 1851 |
| 1848 | Eduard von Lebzelten-Collenbach | Chargé d'affaires | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas I | |
| February 13, 1851 | Franz von Colloredo-Wallsee | Ambassador | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas I | |
| 1851 | Eduard von Lebzelten-Collenbach | Chargé d'affaires | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas I | |
| April 29, 1852 | Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly | | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas I | November 5, 1853 |
| November 5, 1853 | Valentin von Esterházy | | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas I | November 2, 1858 |
| 1853 | Emmerich Széchényi | Chargé d'affaires | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas I | |
| November 14, 1859 | Friedrich von Thun und Hohenstein | | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander II | December 26, 1862 |
| 1859 | Friedrich Revertera von Salandra | Chargé d'affaires | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander II | |
| July 18, 1864 | Friedrich Revertera von Salandra | | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander II | April 14, 1868 |
| 1864 | Albin von Vetsera | Chargé d'affaires | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander II | |
| Alexander II |||
| October 14, 1869 | Boguslaw Chotek von Chotkow | | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander II | September 11, 1871 |
| September 18, 1871 | Ferdinand von Langenau | Ambassador from 4 March 1874 | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander II | January 12, 1880 |
| January 26, 1880 | Gustav Kálnoky | Ambassador | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander II | November 20, 1881 |
| 1880 | Konstantin von Trauttenberg | Chargé d'affaires | Franz Joseph I. | |
| March 8, 1882 | Anton von Wolkenstein-Trostburg | Ambassador | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander III | October 28, 1894 |
| 1882 | Franz I von und zu Liechtenstein | Chargé d'affaires | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander III | |
| 1884 | Anton von Wolkenstein-Trostburg | | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander III | |
| 1884 | Franz I von und zu Liechtenstein | | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander III | 1898 |
| January 26, 1899 | Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal | | Franz Joseph I. | Alexander III | October 24, 1906 |
| December 28, 1906 | Leopold Berchtold | Ambassador | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas II | March 25, 1911 |
| March 25, 1911 | Douglas von Thurn und Valsássina | Ambassador | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas II | October 1, 1913 |
| October 1, 1913 | Friedrich von Szápáry | Ambassador | Franz Joseph I. | Nicholas II | August 6, 1914 |
| 1918 Austria → Soviet Union |||
| 1924 | Otto Pohl | | Rudolf Ramek | Mikhail Kalinin | 1927 |
| 1945 | Karl Waldbrunner | | Leopold Figl | Mikhail Kalinin | May 1946 |
| May 1946 | Karl Braunias | | Leopold Figl | Nikolai Shvernik | November 1946 |
| November 1946 | Norbert Bischoff | | Leopold Figl | Nikolai Shvernik | |
| 1960 | Heinrich Haymerle | | Julius Raab | Leonid Brezhnev | 1964 |
| 1964 | Walter Wodak | | Josef Klaus | Anastas Mikoyan | 1970 |
| 1970 | Heinrich Haymerle | | Bruno Kreisky | Nikolai Podgorny | 1974 |
| 1975 | Heinz Standenat | | Bruno Kreisky | Nikolai Podgorny | |
| 1978 | Gerald Hinteregger | | Bruno Kreisky | Leonid Brezhnev | 1981 |
| 1981 | Helmut Liedermann | | Bruno Kreisky | Leonid Brezhnev | 1986 |
| 1985 | Herbert Grubmayr | | Fred Sinowatz | Andrei Gromyko | |
| 1991 Austria → Russia |||
| 1992 | Friedrich Bauer | | Franz Vranitzky | Boris Yeltsin | September 24, 1995 |
| 1999 | Franz Cede | | Viktor Klima | Vladimir Putin | 2003 |
| 2003 | Martin Vukovich | | Wolfgang Schüssel | Vladimir Putin | 2009 |
| 2009 | Margot Klestil-Löffler | Ambassador | Werner Faymann | Dmitry Medvedev | 2014 |
| January 19, 2015 | Emil Brix | | Werner Faymann | Vladimir Putin | 2017 |
| December 11, 2017 | Johannes Eigner | | | Vladimir Putin | 2021 |
| 2021 | Werner Almhofer | | | Vladimir Putin | |