The XV Summer Olympic Games (July 19 - August 3, 1952) in Helsinki (Finland). The building of the USSR Embassy in Helsinki on Tehtaankatu Street (Factory Street). It was built in 1952 according to the design of architect Anatoly Strizhevsky.19.07.1952#8551107
Soviet diplomat Alexandra Kollontai (right) being presented with the top Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle. 13.04.1946#77324
Moscow. A diplomatic reception at the Receptions House - Mansion of the People's Commissariat (Ministry) for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. Second left: Maxim Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.28.07.1945#8832465
Moscow. A diplomatic reception at the Receptions House - Mansion of the People's Commissariat (Ministry) for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. Second right: Maxim Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.28.07.1945#8832443
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. Colonel General Terenty Shtykov arrives for a meeting at the High Command headquarters.01.01.1942#5633837
The Munich Agreement. On September 29, 1938, four European heads of state met in Munich: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, who agreed to sign an agreement under which a significant part of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland, would be transferred to Germany and become German territory. Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, right, shows French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, second left, where to sign the criminal agreement.30.09.1938#8740455
A Turkish delegation visits the USSR. USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov, second right, and Prime Minister of Turkey Ismet Igenu, second left, pass the honor guard.01.10.1932#5970878
Alexander Kollontai (1972-1952), Soviet state figure and diplomat, ambassador of the Soviet Union to Sweden from 1930 to 1945.31.05.1930#5670292
USSR Plenipotentiary to Poland Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, center, and Trade Representative Pavel Galanin, fourth left.25.10.1929#5610456
Ali Khan Ansari, the foreign minister of Persia, with Persian merchants at the Moscow commodity exchange. Sergey Vasilievich Malyshev is in the party.01.10.1927#782898
Maxim Litvinov, Deputy of Georgy Chicherin, People's Commissar on Foreign Affairs of the USSR signing a Russian-German Treaty. Moscow. 1925.12.10.1925#745589
Members of the Soviet delegation at the Genoa conference Maxim Litvinov, left, and Vatzlav Vorovsky. The Genoa Economic and Financial Conference - an international meeting held in Genoa, Italy, on April 10-May 20, 1922.08.05.1922#3024964
People's Commissar (Minister) of Foreign Trade of the RSFSR and Soviet Plenipotentiary and Trade Envoy to the United Kingdom Leonid Krasin plays golf in the courtyard of the Soviet Embassy in London.07.05.1922#5851566
Georgy Chicherin, Vatslav Vorovsky, Leonid Krasin, Maxim Litvinov, Janis Rudzutaks, Adolph Joffe and other members of the Russian delegation at the Genoa Conference in 1922. Photo courtesy of the Museum of Revolution in Moscow.25.04.1922#3042137
A visit by a Turkish governmental delegation led by Foreign Minister Bekir Sami Kunduh to the RSFSR, July 19-August 14, 1920. The talks on preparations for the Treaty of Friendship and Brotherhood (Treaty of Moscow) between the delegations of Turkey and the RSFSR led by People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Georgy Chicherin, left. Image from the archive of Central Museum of Revolution of the USSR (now State Central Museum of Russia's Contemporary History).19.07.1920#5677567
International and Russian revolutionary movement figure, diplomat Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952).01.02.1920#63916
The first page of Vladimir Lenin's letter to the Soviet envoy in Norway Alexandra Kollontai, March 16, 1917. Moscow's Museum of Revolution (the present-day Museum of Contemporary History of Russia).16.03.1917#3040546
Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet diplomat and international women's movement activist, center, visits the Socialist Party of America committee, Chicago01.10.1915#64798
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Great Britain to Russia (1910-1918), Sir George William Buchanan (1854-1924) at his desk. British Embassy in Petrograd on Dvortsovaya Embankment, 1914. The Central State Documentary Film & Photo Archive, Leningrad.01.02.1914#3039567
Cuban chess player Jose Raul Capablanca plays in a simultaneous chess exhibition with the members of St. Petersburg Chess Association. Photograph by Karl Bulla’s photographic studio.10.10.1913#5639477
A prominent figure of international and Russian revolutionary movement, Soviet diplomat Alexandra Kollontai.01.08.1900#64309
Leonid Krasin (1870-1926), Soviet statesman and diplomat; 1921-23, ambassador to the U.K. and People's Commissar (minister) of Foreign Trade; 1924, ambassador to France; 1925, ambassador to the U.K.01.05.1900#5561
