KISELEV NIKOLAY DMITRIEVICH - Russian di-plo-mat, actual privy councilor (1868).
Nobleman. Brother of P. D. Kiselev. Graduated from the University of Dorpat (1823). From 1824 he served in the Collegium of Foreign Affairs (in the same year he was assigned to the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs). In 1826, as part of the mission of Prince A.S. Menshikov in Persia, sent to negotiate the Russian-Persian border (he left a diary about this - not published). In 1829-1837, he held various positions at the Russian embassy in Paris.
Counselor at the Russian Embassy in London (1837-1840), Charge d'Affaires (1837, 1839-1840). Counselor of the Russian embassy in Paris (since 1840), chargé d'affaires (May - August 1841 and October 1841 - 1851, confirmation of status in 1849).
The revolution of 1848 in France was regarded as a "catastrophe" of the French monarchy, pointing to the significant influence of the revolution on the development of the political situation in other European countries. He reported on close ties between the Provisional Government of the 2nd French Republic and the leaders of the Polish national movement.
He obtained guarantees from the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the French Provisional Government A. de Lamartine that France would not support the national movement in the Kingdom of Poland. He persuaded France to refuse to support the revolutionary movements in Europe, helped to preserve Russian-French diplomatic relations. In the years 1851-1853, being the manager of the Russian embassy, Kiselev was on special assignments with the French government.
Repeatedly reported to the Foreign Ministry that the goal of the policy of the President of the French Republic Charles-la-Louis Na-po-le-o-na Beau-na-par-ta (since 1852, Emperor Napoleon III) will be the withdrawal of France from political isolation, the demolition of the Vienna system of international relations (enshrined in the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815) and France's occupation of the leading position in European affairs. In 1851, he also informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about Bonaparte's desire to ensure the extension of his power by various means and about the significant likelihood of the proclamation of France as an empire in 1852 (took place on 02.12.1852).
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister in Paris (1853-1854). He warned the Foreign Ministry about France's cooperation with Great Britain that is dangerous to Russia's interests. With the beginning of the aggravation of Russian-Turkish relations, which ended in the Crimean War of 1853-1856, they tried to keep the Emperor Na-po-le-o-na III from the -le-nia in the war-well on the side-ro-not of the Os-man-im-peria.
In May 1853, with the aim of influencing French public opinion, on his own initiative, he organized the publication of explanatory materials on Russian foreign policy in one of the leading French publications, the Journal des Débats. In the summer of 1853, when Russian troops occupied the Danube principalities, Kiselev warned the Foreign Ministry that if Russia did not make peace with the Ottoman Empire before the opening of the session of the British Parliament in February 1854, then Great Britain and France would inevitably enter the war.
At the end of 1853, Kiselev, on his own initiative, invited the French government to consider the possibility of rapprochement with the Russian Empire. However, this proposal did not receive a response, after which on 23.01 (04.02) .1854 diplomatic relations between Russia and France were severed.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1855-1860, took office in 1856), then Ambassador Extraordinary to the Holy See in the Papal Region (until 1863, letter of recall 1864). He continued the policy of his predecessor A.P. Butenev, aimed at developing relations with the Catholic Church to reduce political tension in the Kingdom of Poland (interrupted by the Polish uprising of 1863-1864).
He supported the position of A. M. Gorchakov, directed against any involvement of Russia in Italian affairs. Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Italy (1864-1869). He was awarded a number of Russian and foreign orders, including the Order of the Legion of Honor (1846).
MOSCOW, June 26 - RIA Novosti. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on the messages around the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, said that there was no question of any spontaneity with the appointment of the Russian ambassador to Washington.
On the eve of the former US Ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul in Twitter said goodbye to his Russian counterpart Kislyak, stressing that he enjoyed working with him despite his differences of opinion.
“In our country, the decision on the return or appointment of ambassadors is made by the president. This happens in a planned manner immediately after a new ambassador is appointed ... In this case, everything related to the rotation of Russian ambassadors in different countries is going on as planned. the decision to appoint a new ambassador to the United States (and this is a whole procedure that takes several months, respectively, there is no question of any spontaneity), then Sergei Ivanovich Kislyak, who has worked in the United States for 9 years, will go down in the history of bilateral relations as a person who did everything possible to their development even in the most difficult moments, "Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page.
About McFaul himself, she added that he fled "in disgrace from Moscow, having failed not only all possible diplomatic tasks and protocol appearances and passwords, but even the strange mission entrusted to him by the (Barack - Ed.) Obama Administration."
McFaul was ambassador to Moscow from 2012 to 2014. He is now a professor at Stanford University and an active commentator on Russian-American relations. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, McFaul was banned from entering Russia with the wording "for deliberate damage to relations between Moscow and Washington." As Zakharova noted earlier, over the years of his service as ambassador to Moscow, McFaul demonstrated "absolute professional unsuitability."
Kislyak has been serving as the Russian Ambassador to the United States since 2008. For a long time, the diplomat was portrayed in the American media as a "conductor of Russian influence." Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned after the White House announced that Flynn had not fully told US intelligence about the content of the conversation with Kislyak. In addition, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from investigating the "Russian connections" of Trump's entourage after it became known about the routine meeting of Sessions with the Russian ambassador when Sessions was a senator.
A previously informed source told RIA Novosti that the State Duma Committee on International Affairs supported the candidacy of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Antonov for the post of the new head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington. At the same time, as the Kommersant newspaper noted earlier, Antonov may go to Washington in July - after the first personal meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American leader Donald Trump, which is to take place on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg.
- Count, Russian statesman (1788-1872). He began his service in the cavalry regiment, with which he took part in the Battle of Borodino and in the foreign campaigns of 1813-1815. Being Miloradovich's adjutant, he became known to Emperor Alexander I, who appointed him as his aide-de-camp and often entrusted him with important tasks. In 1819 he became chief of staff of the Second Army, located in the town of Tulchin, Podolsk province. The future Decembrists Pestel, Burtsev, Basargin, Prince Trubetskoy, and Prince Volkonsky served here under Kiselev's command. All of them were on very good terms with Kiselev, but Kiselev did not know about the existence of a secret society. The official position of Kiselev in Tulchin was very difficult. He had many enemies who tried to harm him at every step. The main reason for this was those innovations - for example, the mitigation of corporal punishment - that Kiselev undertook in the 2nd army and which many people did not like, including Arakcheev. In 1823, after the review of the army by the emperor, Kiselev was granted the adjutant general, but remained in the Second Army. With her, he took part in the Turkish war of 1828-29, after which he was entrusted with the organization of administration in Moldavia and Wallachia. Kiselev remained in Iasi until 1834, that is, until Porta Sturdza was appointed ruler of Moldavia, and Giki - of the Wallachian. In 1835 Kiselev was appointed a member of the State Council and a member of the secret committee on peasant affairs. The last appointment took place after a lengthy conversation with Emperor Nicholas I, in which Kiselev argued the need to free the peasants. This idea met with opposition in high society, as a result of which the meetings of the committee were brought to naught; it was only decided to create a special administration for the state peasants, headed by Kiselev. Such management was at first the V department of His Imperial Majesty's own chancellery, and then the Ministry of State Property. In 1839 Kiselev was elevated to the rank of count. His activity as minister lasted 18 years and was distinguished by great fruitfulness, although it caused displeasure, intrigue, created envious people and enemies for him. Under Nicholas I, the latter could not, however, undermine Kiselev's credit from the sovereign, who believed in his minister. At the very beginning of the new reign, at a time when it had not yet had time to decide, Kiselev's enemies finally managed to achieve their goal. In 1856 he was appointed ambassador to Paris. Emperor Alexander II asked him, however, to recommend a successor, and Kiselev named Sheremetev, who was appointed. Kiselev became an ambassador in his declining years and in the most difficult time, when relations between Russia and France were strained after the Crimean War; but he managed with dignity to support the interests of his fatherland. In 1862, his disordered health forced him to ask for his dismissal. Having retired, Kiselev remained in Paris, since his closest relatives in Russia had died. When he was offered the presidency of the Council of State, he refused, feeling unable to deal with public affairs. Remaining to the end devoted to the cause of the peasant reform, Kiselev was very sorry that its implementation was not left to one of its main participants - N.A.Milyutin, Kiselev's nephew.
A detailed biography of Kiselev was written by A. P. Zablotsky-Desyatovsky: "Count PD Kiselev and his time" (St. Petersburg, 1882).
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