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The first Ambassador of Russia to Austria was Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn (pictured) and he served in the position from 1763 until 1792. Later that year, Count Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky became ambassador in Vienna, the Austrian capital, where he kept contact with representatives of the European aristocracy, politicians and artists. Prominent Russian diplomat Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov led the Russian diplomatic mission from 1854 to 1856. In 1882, scientist and diplomat Prince Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky was appointed as the Empire's representative in Vienna. The first Soviet Plenipotentiary in Vienna was Yan Antonovich Berzin. Diplomatic relations between Russia and Austria were broken after the German invasion of Austria and its incorporation into Nazi Germany, but diplomatic relations have since been re-established. (Full list...)