Sergey Sazonov

Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov (1860 – 1927) was Russian foreign minister (1910 – 1916).

Sazonov was brother-in-law of Pyotr Stolypin and served in the embassy in London, and the diplomatic mission to the Vatican, where he also served as chief of mission. He then served as assistant foreign minister 1909-1910. Sazonov was the strong supporter of the Triple Entente. Via easing Russian relations with Germany he tried to isolate Austria-Hungary.

Sazonov was one of those responsible for commencement of World War I. After he pressed tsar Nicholas II to grant the autonomy to the Poles, he was dismissed.

He was foreign minister in the Admiral Alexander Kolchak anti-Bolshevik government.

He died in Nice, France, where he is buried.

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Russian and Soviet Foreign Ministers

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Ivan Viskovatyi | Vasily and Andrey Shchelkalov | Ivan Gramotin | Pyotr Tretyakov | Almaz Ivanov | Afanasy Ordin-Naschokin | Artamon Matveyev | Vasily Golitsyn | Emelian Ukraintsev | Lev Naryshkin | Fyodor Golovin | Peter Shafirov | Gavrila Golovkin | Andrey Osterman | Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin | Mikhailo Vorontsov | Nikita Panin | Ivan Osterman | Alexander Bezborodko | Feodor Rostopchin | Nikita Panin Jr. | Viktor Kochubey | Alexander Vorontsov | Adam Jerzy Czartoryski | Andrei Budberg | Nikolay Rumyantsev | John Capodistria | Karl Robert Nesselrode | Alexander Gorchakov | Nicholas de Giers | Alexis Lobanoff de Rostoff | Nikolay Shishkin | Mikhail Muravyov | Vladimir Lambsdorff | Alexander Izvolsky | Alexander Sazonov | Nikolay Pokrovsky | Pavel Milyukov | Mikhail Tereshchenko | Leon Trotsky | Georgy Chicherin | Maxim Litvinov | Vyacheslav Molotov | Andrey Vyshinsky | Dmitri Shepilov | Andrey Gromyko | Eduard Shevardnadze | Aleksandr Bessmertnykh | Boris Pankin | Andrey Kozyrev | Yevgeny Primakov | Igor Ivanov | Sergei Lavrov