Georgy Chicherin
1872 – 1936 Russian Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs
The aristocratic diplomat who ran Soviet foreign policy in the 1920s.
- Religion
- Russian Orthodox noble background; a militant atheist.
- Affiliations
- Bolshevik Party; second Soviet foreign minister; negotiated the Treaty of Rapallo.
Chicherin came from an old noble family and became the Soviet Union's foreign minister for over a decade. He broke the young state's isolation, above all through the 1922 Rapallo treaty with Germany. Ill and out of favor, he was retired before the worst of the purges.
Connections
- associate of Vladimir Lenin — Served as his government's chief diplomat.