The Political Graveyard: Russia

The Political
Graveyard

Russia

Russia information:

Population: 145,470,197
Land area 6,592,767 square miles.
Capital: Moscow

See also: Kaliningrad Oblast; Soviet Union

Neighboring areas:

North: Barents Sea; Kara Sea; Laptev Sea; East Siberian Sea
Northeast: Chukchi Sea
East: Bering Sea
Southeast: Sea of Okhotsk; Sea of Japan; North Korea
South: China; Mongolia; Kazakhstan; Caspian Sea; Azerbaijan; Georgia
Southwest: Black Sea; Sea of Azov
West: Ukraine; Belarus; Latvia; Estonia; Gulf of Finland
Northwest: Finland; Norway

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Russia
U.S. Consuls in Russia
U.S. Politicians who were born in Russia
U.S. Politicians who died in Russia
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in Russia

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Russia

Francis Dana (Minister 1780-83) John Quincy Adams (Minister 1809-14) William Pinkney (Minister 1816-18) George W. Campbell (Minister 1818-20) Henry Middleton (Minister 1820-30) John Randolph of Roanoke (Minister 1830) James Buchanan (Minister 1832-33) William Wilkins (Minister 1834-35) John R. Clay (Charge d'Affaires 1836-37) George M. Dallas (Minister 1837-39) Churchill C. Cambreleng (Minister 1840-41) Charles S. Todd (Minister 1841-46) Ralph I. Ingersoll (Minister 1846-48) Arthur P. Bagby (Minister 1848-49) Neill S. Brown (Minister 1850-53) Thomas H. Seymour (Minister 1853-58) Francis W. Pickens (Minister 1858-60) John Appleton (Minister 1860-61) Cassius M. Clay (Minister 1861-62) Simon Cameron (Minister 1862) Cassius M. Clay (Minister 1863-69) Andrew G. Curtin (Minister 1869-72) James L. Orr (Minister 1872-73) Marshall Jewell (Minister 1873-74) George H. Boker (Minister 1875-78) Edwin W. Stoughton (Minister 1878-79) John W. Foster (Minister 1880-81) William H. Hunt (Minister 1882-84) Alphonso Taft (Minister 1884-85) George V. N. Lothrop (Minister 1885-88) Lambert Tree (Minister 1888-89) Charles Emory Smith (Minister 1890-92) Andrew D. White (Minister 1892-94) Clifton R. Breckinridge (Minister 1894-97) Ethan A. Hitchcock (Minister 1897-98) Ethan A. Hitchcock (Ambassador 1898-99) Charlemagne Tower (Ambassador 1899-1902) Robert S. McCormick (Ambassador 1902-05) George V. L. Meyer (Ambassador 1905-07) John W. Riddle (Ambassador 1907-09) William W. Rockhill (Ambassador 1909-11) Curtis Guild, Jr. (Ambassador 1911-13) George T. Marye (Ambassador 1914-16) David R. Francis (Ambassador 1916-17) Robert S. Strauss (Ambassador 1992) Thomas R. Pickering (Ambassador 1993-96) James F. Collins (Ambassador 1996-2001) Alexander Vershbow (Ambassador 2001-05) William J. Burns (Ambassador 2005-)

U.S. Consuls in Russia

(may be incomplete!)

Archangel: Samuel Hazard (Consul 1811-14) Edmund Brandt (Consul 1832-60) William Brandt, Jr. (Consul 1833-36) Edward Brandt (Consul 1841-48) George Mallison (Consul 1849-50) Charles Brandt (Consul 1853-56) R. Finch (Consul 1857) E. H. Brandt (Consul 1858-59) Edmund Brandt (Consul 1874)
Irkutsk: Ernest L. Harris (Consul General 1918-21) Alfred R. Thomson (Consul 1919)
Moscow: Adolph Billhardt (Consul 1897) Thomas Smith (Vice Consul 1897) Thomas Smith (Consul 1898) John H. Snodgrass (Consul General 1914-17) Alfred W. Smith (Vice Consul 1914) Luther K. Zabriskie (Vice Consul 1915-16) David B. Macgowan (Consul 1915-19) William L. Jenkins (Consul 1916) Maddin Summers (Consul 1917) Orsen N. Nielsen (Vice Consul 1918) Frank C. Lee (Vice Consul 1918) Charles E. Bohlen (Vice Consul 1934) George C. Hanson (Consul General 1935) Charles W. Thayer (Vice Consul 1937) Robert D. Coe (Consul 1937) Fred E. Waller (Vice Consul 1938) Angus I. Ward (Consul 1938) George C. Minor (Vice Consul 1938) Philip F. Cherp (Vice Consul 1938) Stuart E. Grummon (Consul 1938) Edwin McKee (Vice Consul 1938) Charles E. Bohlen (Consul 1938-39) Walter T. Costello (Vice Consul 1938) George C. Miner (Vice Consul 1938) Charles W. Thayer (Vice Consul 1940) Carl A. Fisher (Consul 1940) Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr. (Consul 1941-43) Edwin L. Smith (Vice Consul 1941-43) A. Bland Calder (Consul 1943) Alden M. Haupt (Vice Consul 1943) Thomas P. Dillon (Vice Consul 1943) Warwick Perkins (Consul 1943) Francis B. Stevens (Vice Consul 1943) Edward Page, Jr. (Consul 1943) William E. Wallace (Vice Consul 1944) Foy D. Kohler (Consul 1947)
Murmansk: Maurice C. Pierce (Consul 1919)
Nikolayevsk on Amur: Perry McDowell Collins (Commercial Agent 1856-58) George S. Cushing (Vice Commercial Agent 1857-59) Harrison G. O. Chase (Vice Commercial Agent 1859-64) Perry McDowell Collins (Commercial Agent 1861-69) Henry W. Hiller (Vice Commercial Agent 1864-65) Harrison G. O. Chase (Vice Commercial Agent 1865-67) Henry W. Hiller (Vice Commercial Agent 1867-72)
Omsk: Adolph F. Reinecke (Consular Agent 1914) Arthur L. Dille (Vice Consul 1919) Robert E. Winters (Vice Consul 1919)
Petrograd (St. Petersburg): North Winship (Consul 1914-17) Felix Cole (Vice Consul 1916-17) Frank C. Lee (Vice Consul 1916-18) Robert W. Imbrie (Vice Consul 1918)
St. Petersburg: John Miller Russell (Consul 1794-1803) Levitt Harris (Consul 1803-13) John Levitt Harris (Consul 1816-19) Abraham P. Gibson (Consul 1819-50) William H. Ropes (Consul 1850-54) William L. Winans (Consul 1854-57) James Reily (Consul 1856) Caleb Croswell (Consul 1857-61) John D. Arnold (Consul 1861-62) Perry McDowell Collins (Vice Consul 1862-63) William E. Phelps (Consul 1863-66) George Pomutz (Consul 1874) J. Curtin (Vice Consul 1874) John Karel (Consul General 1897) Paul Magnus (Vice Consul General 1897) William R. Holloway (Consul General 1898) W. A. Heydecker (Vice & Deputy Consul General 1898) Hernando de Soto (Vice & Deputy Consul 1902) Hernando de Soto (Vice & Deputy Consul General 1903) Ethelbert Watts (Consul General 1906) William Dawson (Vice & Deputy Consul General 1908) Paul Bartlett (Vice Consul 1914) H. Custis Vezey (Vice Consul 1914) Jacob E. Conner (Consul 1914)
Viborg (Vyborg): John Sparrow (Consular Agent 1863-70) Robert W. Imbrie (Vice Consul 1920)
Vladivostok: R. T. Greener (Consul 1898-1901) Roger S. Greene (Consul 1907) Lester Maynard (Consul 1908-11) Harold F. Newhard (Vice Consul 1909-17) John F. Jewell (Consul 1914) John K. Caldwell (Consul 1914-20) Everett B. Ansley (Vice Consul 1916-17) Robert K. Christenberry (Vice Consul 1919) David B. Macgowan (Consul 1920-22) Rollin R. Winslow (Vice Consul 1922-23) S. Pinkney Tuck (Consul 1922-23) Charles H. Stephan (Vice Consul 1922) Frederick S. Pray (Vice Consul 1922) Millard L. Thomas (Vice Consul 1922) James G. McCargar (Vice Consul 1943) William E. Wallace (Vice Consul 1943) Angus I. Ward (Consul General 1943) Oliver Edmund Clubb (Consul General 1944-45)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Russia

No city given: Edmund Brandt c.1792 Julius Halpern c.1859 Herman Bernstein 1876 Harry Kopp 1881 Jacob Caplan c.1883 Max Aron 1885 Daniel Ellison 1886 Henry Dimin c.1886 Otto Krueger 1890 Hilda G. Claessens c.1890 Samuel L. Fein 1899 Jacob P. Nathanson 1901 Alexander Bicks 1901 Arthur J. Katzman 1903 Samuel C. Kagan 1908 Ben S. Stephansky 1913
Gomel: Frederic R. Mann 1903
Kalvaria: Meyer London 1871
Moscow: Leon A. Malkiel 1866
Pereyaslov: Harold Shapiro 1906
Pokrov: Z. J. Loussac 1883
Province of Chernigov: Abraham I. Shiplacoff 1877
St. Petersburg: Vladimir Karapetoff 1876
Tilsit, Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia): T. E. Diamond 1876
Near Tilsit, Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia): Daniel George Shillock c.1824

U.S. Politicians who died in Russia

No city given: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 1964
Moscow: William Z. Foster 1961
St. Petersburg: Anson Burlingame 1870 James L. Orr 1873 William H. Hunt 1884

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in Russia

Moscow The Kremlin

The Kremlin
Moscow, Russia

Politicians buried here:

Charles Emil Ruthenberg (1882-1927) — also known as C. E. Ruthenberg — of Ohio. Born in 1882. Socialist candidate for Governor of Ohio, 1912; Socialist candidate for U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1916; main founder of the Communist Party of the U.S.A., 1919; Workers candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 20th District, 1924. Died in 1927. Interment at The Kremlin.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

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