Maxim Litvinov
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Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet statesman and diplomat who served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs from 1930 to 1939.
Official portrait, 1946
Maxim Litvinov in 1896
Litvinov in 1902
Litvinov in 1905
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
Maxim Litvinov
…Engineers, along with some American and Canadian soldiers, were received in Litvinov's office. At the end of 1917, Litvinov had secured the release of Georgy Chicherin from Brixton prison, but in September 1918, the British government arrested Litvinov, ostensibly for having addressed public gatherings held in opposition…
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.