After finishing the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo Neratov joined the Foreign service around 1890.[2] Between 1906 and 1910 he was vice-director of the 1st department of the Russian foreign ministry,[3] from 1910 on until 1917 he then was PermanentUnder Secretary of State resp. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.[1][4] Although Neratov has never been abroad during his long service[2] he temporarily became acting foreign minister four times:[4]
Leon Trotsky, the new People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, asked Neratov to subordinate to the Council of People's Commissars and to hand over the secret documents from the diplomatic archives of the foreign ministry. Neratov refused and was eventually deposed and replaced by Ivan Zalkind in November 1917.[9][10][11] The secret documents were confiscated and published, however, in January 1918 Neratov claimed that some of these published documents were nothing more than insignificant notices or even forgeries.[12] During the Russian Civil War Nerotov advised the "White" movement[1] – first Anton Ivanovich Denikin,[13] then, from 1920, Denikin's successor Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel. Wrangel finally sent Neratov as his ambassador to Istanbul[1] to get support from the Entente. At the end of the Turkish War of Independence, when the Entente gave Istanbul back to the Turks, Neratov fled to France.
^ abcМихайловский, Георгий Николаевич: Записки. Из истории российского внешнеполитического ведомства, 1914–1920 гг. Книга 1. Анатолий Анатольевич Нератов
^Mikhail Nikolaevich Pokrovskiĭ, Otto Hoetzsch: Die internationalen Beziehungen im Zeitalter des Imperialismus, Vol. 1, Part 5, Vol. 5 (Dokumente aus den Archiven der zaris[tis]chen und der provisorischen Regierung), page 426. Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1954
^ abMarina Soroka: Britain, Russia and the Road to the First World War – The Fateful Embassy of Count Aleksandr Benckendorff (1903–16), pages 207–223 and 292. Routledge, London/New York 2016
^Jonathan Mercer: Reputation and International Politics, pages 171–175 and 202–210. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2010
^Joseph T. Fuhrmann: The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra – April 1914 – March 1917, page 752. Greenwood Press, Santa Barbara 1999
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