This is an incomplete list of ambassadors from France to Russia.
Eighteenth century
1702–1713 1713 Lavie (Levisson) 1721 de Campredon 1727–1733 Magnan 1734 Édouard Salomon Fonton de l'Etang-la-Ville 1739–1743 Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie 1742–1748 Louis d'Usson de Bonnac, comte d'Alion (1743-1747 de Saint-Sauveur (consul)) 1755 chevalier Douglas 1757 Paul-Gallucio, marquis de L'Hospital 1760–1764 Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil 1772–1774 1774 Charles-Louis Le Clerc, marquis de Juigné 1782–1784 Charles Olivier de Saint-Georges de Vérac 1785–1789 Louis Philippe de Ségur 1790–1791 René Eustache d'Osmond 1789–1792 Edmond-Charles Genêt
From 1791 to 1796, in the context of non-recognition of the revolutionary government in Paris, Catherine II accredited Count Valentin Esterházy, envoy of the Dukes of Provence and Artois as minister of emigrants and French in exile.Only Sweden imitated the example of Russia by accrediting in 1791 the Baron des Cars Conversely, Russia delegates and accredits the Count of Roumiantsev to the princes established in Koblenz. Under the reign of Paul I, Count Esterházy was succeeded by the Marquis de La Ferté-Meung (1796-1799), briefly succeeded by the Viscount of Caraman (1799-1800). The representation of the French princes (which from 1795 became that of Louis XVIII, king of France in exile), will end with the death of Tsar Paul I and the normalization of diplomatic relations between Russia and France following the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807.In Romain Daudé, Le comte Valentin Esterházy et la représentation diplomatique des émigrés en Russie, 1791-1796, d’après les lettres originales adressées à sa femme et divers documents manuscrits, Thèse de Doctorat en Histoire moderne, sous la direction de Mme Marie Blaise et de M. Pierre-Yves Kirschleger, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 - 2023. 818pp.
Nineteenth century and early twentieth century
1792–1812 Barthélemy de Lesseps 1801–1804 Gabriel, comte d'Hédouville 1807 Anne Jean Marie René Savary 1807–1811 Armand Caulaincourt 1811–1812 Jacques Alexandre Law de Lauriston 1814–1819 Achille Charles Victor de Noailles 1820–1827 Auguste, comte de La Ferronays 1828–1830 Casimir Louis Victurnien de Rochechouart de Mortemart 1830–1831: Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier 1832 prince de Trévise 1832–1835: Nicolas Joseph Maison 1835–1848 Prosper Brugière de Barante 1849 Adolphe Emmanuel Charles Le Flô (persona non grata in 1851) 1849 Christophe Louis Léon Juchault de Lamoricière, ambassadeur extraordinaire 1849–1854 Général de Castelbajac 1856–1857 Charles, duc de Morny, ambassadeur extraordinaire 1857–1858 Alphonse de Rayneval 1858–1864 Louis Napoléon Lannes 1864–1869 Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord 1869–1870 1870–1879 Adolphe Emmanuel Charles Le Flô 1879–1882 Antoine Chanzy 1882–1883 Benjamin Jaurès 1883–1886 1886–1891 Paul Lefebvre de Laboulaye 1891–1902 1902–1908 Maurice Bompard 1908–1913 Georges Louis 1913–1914 Théophile Delcassé 1914–1917 Maurice Paléologue 1917–? M. Doulet (Chargé d'Affaires) 1917–1920? Joseph Noulens
Soviet Union 1924–1932 Jean Herbette 1933–1936 Charles Alphand 1936–1939 Robert Coulondre 1939–1940 Paul-Émile Naggiar 1940–1941 1941 Official end to the diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Vichy Government following the latter's support of the German Operation Barbarossa During the war the French National Committee was represented in the Soviet Union by Roger Garreau 1945–1948 Georges Catroux 1948–1952 Yves Chataigneau 1952–1955 Louis Joxe 1955–1964 1964–1966 Philippe Baudet 1966–1968 1968–1973 Roger Seydoux 1973–1976 Jacques Vimont 1976–1979 Bruno de Leusse 1979–1981 Henri Froment-Meurice 1981–1984 Claude Arnaud 1985–1986 Jean-Bernard Raimond 1986–1988 Yves Pagniez 1989–1991 1991–1992
Post-Soviet Russia
1991–1992 1992–1996 1996–2000 Hubert Colin de Verdière 2000–2003 Claude Blanchemaison 2003–2006 Jean Cadet 2006–2009 Stanislas de Laboulaye 2009–2013 Jean de Gliniasty 2013–2017 Jean-Maurice Ripert 2017–2019 Sylvie Bermann 2020–2024 2025-present Nicolas de Rivière
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