Georgy Chicherin
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Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin 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
Chicherin c. 1925–30
Chicherin in January 1900
Chicherin with deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov
Chicherin is in the centre, between German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann and his wife, in Berlin in 1928 during a break from German–Lithuanian–Soviet negotiations.
Treaty of Rapallo (1922)
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The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement signed on 16 April 1922 between Germany and Russia under which both renounced all territorial and financial claims against each other and opened friendly diploma
Georgy Chicherin
…after his predecessor, Count Wilhelm Mirbach, was shot in the Left SR uprising. In 1922, Chicherin participated in the Genoa Conference and signed the Treaty of Rapallo with Germany. He begged Lenin to avoid wrecking the Genoa Conference since he believed that would make it easier to get foreign loans. Chicherin pursued…
Chancellor of Germany Joseph Wirth (second from left) with Leonid Krasin, Georgi Chicherin and Adolph Joffe from the Russian delegation
German delegation to the Genoa Conference, At the front is Walter Rathenau (second from the left) and Joseph Wirth (third from the right)