# List of ambassadors of Russia to Italy

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. There are consulates general in Milan, Palermo, and Genoa, and honorary consulates in Florence, Udine, Ancona, Venice, Verona, Naples, Messina, Pisa and Bari. The post of Russian Ambassador to Italy is currently held by Aleksey Paramonov [ru], incumbent since 4 April 2023. The Russian ambassador to Italy is concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of Russia to San Marino.

## History of diplomatic relations

The first relations between Russia and the predecessor states of modern Italy were established in the late 16th century. In 1862, Russia recognized the Kingdom of Italy and started to send its representatives. In 1876, the missions of the two countries in Saint Petersburg and Rome were transformed into embassies. 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. 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 4 April 2023 |
| Aleksey Paramonov [ru] | Ambassador | 4 April 2023 | |