Georgy Chicherin

Georgy Chicherin
Георгий Чичерин
Chicherin c. 1925–30
People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
In office
6 July 1923 – 21 July 1930
PremierVladimir Lenin
Alexey Rykov
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMaxim Litvinov
People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR
In office
9 April 1918 – 6 July 1923
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byLeon Trotsky
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born(1872-11-12)12 November 1872
Died7 July 1936(1936-07-07) (aged 63)
PartyRSDLP (Mensheviks) (1905–1918)
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1936)
ProfessionStatesman, diplomat
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Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin (or Tchitcherin; Russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Чиче́рин; 24 November 1872 – 7 July 1936) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician who served as the first People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from March 1918 to July 1930.