List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia
Ambassadors
Table:
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[3]
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
1929
Joseph Stalin

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[4]
2011
2015
Dmitry Medvedev→
Vladimir Putin

Dr Laurie Bristow[5]
2016

Vladimir Putin

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