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UK Ambassador
to the Russian Federation
Британский Посол в России
; UK Ambassador ; to the Russian Federation ; Британский Посол в России
	Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
	Incumbent; Nigel Casey; since 2023
Style	His Excellency
Reports to	Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Residence	Moscow
Appointer	Charles III
Inaugural holder	The Lord St Helens ; First Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to Russia The Lord Bloomfield ; First Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia Sir John Crampton, Bt ; First Ambassador to Russia
Formation	1801 ; Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1844 ; Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary 1860 ; Ambassadors
Website	British Embassy - Moscow

The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia (Russian: Британский Посол в России) is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Russian Federation and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Russia. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Russian Federation.

Between 1844 and 1860 the status of the head of mission in Saint Petersburg was reduced from Ambassador to Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. The capital of Russia, and later of the Soviet Union (from 1922 to 1991), moved to Moscow in 1918.

List of heads of mission

For the envoys to Russia from the Court of St James's before the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Russia (for the period until 1707) and List of ambassadors of Great Britain to Russia (for the years 1707 to 1800).

Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

1800-1801: Diplomatic Relations were suspended during the Second League of Armed Neutrality.

1801–1802: The Lord St Helens^[1]
1802–1804: Sir John Borlase Warren, Bt^[1]
1804–1806: Lord Granville Leveson-Gower^[1]
1805–1806: The Lord Cathcart^[1]
1807: Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale Special Mission^[1]
1807: Lord Granville Leveson-Gower^[1] (again)
1807–1812: Diplomatic Relations suspended following Treaty of Tilsit
1812: Edward Thornton Plenipotentiary to negotiate at Stockholm^[1]
1812–1820: The Viscount Cathcart (created Earl Cathcart while in post in 1814)^[1]
1820–1825: Sir Charles Bagot^[1]
- 1820–1824: Hon. Frederick Cathcart Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim^[2]
- 1824–1825: Edward Michael Ward Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim^[2]
1825–1826: The Viscount Strangford^[1]
- 1825–1828 : Edward Cromwell Disbrowe Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim^[1]
1828–1832: Sir William à Court, Bt^[1]
- 1828–1832: Hon. William Temple Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim^[2]
1832–1833: Sir Stratford Canning (nominally ambassador, but did not go)^[1]
- 1832–1835: Hon. John Duncan Bligh Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim^[1]
1835–1837: The Earl of Durham^[1]
1837–1838: John Ralph Milbanke Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim^[1]
1838–1841: The Marquess of Clanricarde^[1]
1841–1844: The Lord Stuart de Rothesay^[1]

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

1844–1851 : John Bloomfield (succeeded as Baron Bloomfield while in post in 1846)^[1]
1851–1854 : Sir George Hamilton Seymour^[1]
1854–1856: No representation due to the Crimean War
1856–1858 : The Lord Wodehouse
1858–1860 : Sir John Crampton, Bt

Ambassadors

Name	Tenure Begin	Tenure End	British monarch	Russian monarch/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		Emperor Alexander III
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	King Edward VII
Sir George Buchanan	1910	1918	King George V→ King Edward VIII→ King George VI
no representation from 26 December 1918	1918	1924		Vladimir Lenin
Sir Robert MacLeod Hodgson	1924	1927		Joseph Stalin
no representation following a crisis in 1927^[4]	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		Mikhail Gorbachev
Sir Brian Fall	1992	1995		Boris Yeltsin
Sir Andrew Wood	1995	2000		Boris Yeltsin
Sir Roderic Lyne	2000	2004		Vladimir Putin
Sir Anthony Brenton	2004	2008		Vladimir Putin
Dame Anne Pringle	2008	2011		Dmitry Medvedev
Sir Tim Barrow^[5]	2011	2015		Dmitry Medvedev→ Vladimir Putin
Sir Laurie Bristow^[6]	2016	2020		Vladimir Putin
Dame Deborah Bronnert^[7]	January 2020	2023	Queen Elizabeth II→ King Charles III
Nigel Casey^[8]	November 2023	—	King Charles III

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
^ ^a ^b ^c Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 81–82.
^ "Sir Nicholas O'Conor Dead," New York Times. March 20, 1908.
^ Harriette Flory: The Arcos Raid and the Rupture of Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1927, in: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Oct., 1977), pp. 707–723. Available here.
^ "UK in Russia - Our Ambassador". Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ "Dr Laurie Bristow CMG". gov.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Russia - January 2020". GOV.UK. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
^ "Change of His Majesty's Ambassador to Russia: Nigel Casey". GOV.UK. Retrieved 11 March 2024.