Alexander Izvolsky

Alexander Petrovich Isvolsky (Russian Александр Петрович Извольский; * 6 Märzjul / March 18 1856greg in Moscow, .. † August 16, 1919 in Paris) was a Russian diplomat and foreign minister.

Life

Isvolsky came from the lesser nobility and was first Russian ambassador in Belgrade (1897 ), Munich ( 1897-1899 ), Tokyo ( 1899-1903 ) and Copenhagen ( 1903-1906 ) was, before he was appointed in 1906 by Tsar Nicholas II to the Foreign Minister.

Isvolsky represented a coalition course with the UK, he with an agreement (Treaty of Saint Petersburg ) realized in August of 1907, the disputes between the two powers in Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet broke ( " The Great Game "). In September 1908, he managed to reach a right of transit of Russian warships through the Dardanelles in the negotiations during the Bosnian annexation crisis (Agreement of Buchlau ). In October 1909, he graduated with Italy the so-called agreement of Racconigi, the commitment from both countries to maintain the status quo in the Balkans. Further negotiations about the crises in the Balkans brought to Russia but especially failures, so that Isvolsky resigned from the post of Foreign Minister in September 1910. He was then to 1917 Ambassador to Paris, where he decided the alliance of the Allies of World War I later defended against the German Reich. In exile in France remaining, he was among the supporters of military intervention against Soviet Russia.