Embassy of Italy in Moscow

The Italian Embassy in Moslau is the headquarters of the diplomatic representation of Italy in Russia. It is located in the Villa Berg at the Deneschni Pereulok 5 in the central district of Moscow Khamovniki.

History

Named after the Russian merchant Sergei mountain building was built on the site of an old wooden building from 1897. After the escape of the Berg family to Switzerland in 1918 taught in the neoclassical building by Ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach Harff the formerly based in St. Petersburg Embassy of the German Empire a. As 1918 Mirbach Harff was murdered in the Red Room of the embassy building of two Cheka. As a result, the building only seat of the Communist International and the venue for various conferences was. In 1924 it was acquired by Italy, which set up its Embassy in the Soviet Union there.

After the Second World War, the Italian Embassy in the Villa Berg was reopened in 1949. 1960, a meeting between the Soviet state and party leader Nikita Khrushchev and the Italian President Giovanni Gronchi took place here. In the course of its observations, the two called on to join the the other party, resulting in a minor confrontation resulted.

Since 1990 located in the Villa Berg, the Italian Embassy in the Russian Federation.