Category:Italian Diaspora (Russia)

Italian Diaspora (Russia)

Timeline

1400s

1475-1486 - Aristotele Fioravanti (architect)

1487-1493 - Pietro Antonio Solari (architect)

1494-1516 - Aloisio da Carcano

1700s

1715-1744 - Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli (artist)

1715-1771 - Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (architect)

1718-1723 - Nicola Michetti (architect)

1731 - Giovanni Alberto Ristori (composer)

1736-1762 - Francesco Araja (composer)

1742-1752 - Giuseppe Bonecchi (librettist)

1757-1783 - Giovanni Battista Locatelli (opera director)

1758-1769 - Vincenzo Manfredini (composer)

1762-1784 - Stefano Torelli (artist)

1765-1768 - Baldassare Galuppi (composer)

1766-1772 - Gasparo Angiolini (dancer)

1768-1775 - Tommaso Traetta (composer)

1776-1784 - Giovanni Paisiello (composer)

1779-1822 - Canobbio (composer)

1779-1811 - Giacomo Trombara (architect)

1780-1817 - Giacomo Quarenghi (architect)

1782-1816 - Vincenzo Giovanni Bova (artist)

1782-1831 - Francesco Camporanesi (architect)

1784-1787, 1791-1801 - Sarti (composer)

1787-1791 - Cimarosa (composer)

1788-1839 - Giulio Renato Litta (military)

1791-1797 - Giovanni Battista Lampi (artist)

1795-1849 - Carlo Rossi (architect)

1797-1799 - Lorenzo Litta (nuncio)

1798-1840 - Catterino Cavos (composer)

1800s

1806-1849 - Filippo Paulicci (military)

1818-1875 - * Fëdor Antonovič Bruni (artist)

1818-1863 - * Albert Catterinovič (architect)

1823-1861 - * Ivan Catterinovič (conductor)

1837-1842 - <Gogol's stay in Rome>

1850-1870 - Cesare Pugni (composer)

1853-1877 - Cesare Ciardi (flautist, composer)

1861-1862 - Giuseppe Verdi (composer)

1862 - <Establishment of diplomatic relations between Italy and the Russian Empire>

1874-1881 - Enrico Bevignani (conductor)

1876 - <Exchange of Ambassadors>

1876-1883 - Costantino Nigra (ambassador / Saint Petersburg)

1878-1919 - Riccardo Drigo (composer)

1887-1902 - Enrico Cecchetti (dancer)

1900s (I)

1903-1917 - Giacomo Cireni (clown, actor)

1904-1913 - Giulio Melegari (ambassador / Saint Petersburg)

1908 - <Humanitarian mission of Russian sailors (Messina earthquake)>

1910-1919 - * Ivan Puni (artist)

1910-1915 - Adalgiso Ferraris (composer, pianist)

1913-1917 - Andrea Carlotti (ambassador / Saint Petersburg)

1924 (Feb 7) - <Establishment of diplomatic relations between Fascist Italy and the Soviet Union / Transfer of the Embassy from Saint Petersburg to Moscow (Villa Berg)>

1924-1927 - Gaetano Manzoni (ambassador / Moscow)

1927-1930 - Vittorio Cerruti (ambassador / Moscow)

1927-1942 - Edmondo Peluso (politician)

1930-1935 - Bernardo Attolico (ambassador / Moscow)

1931-1947 - Paolo Robotti (politician)

1931-1937 - Vincenzo Baccalà (politician)

1933 (Sep 2) - <Treaty on Friendship, Non-Aggression and Neutrality>

1934-1944 - Palmiro Togliatti (politician)

1935-1936 - Pietro Aronè (ambassador / Moscow)

1936-1941 - Augusto Giacometti Rosso (ambassador / Moscow)

1939-1944 - Palmiro Togliatti (politician, leader of Italy's Communist Party)

1941 (Jun 22) - <Italian declaration of war against the Soviet Union / Suspension of diplomatic relations>

1941-1943 - <The Italian participation on the Eastern Front ended with the defeat of the Italian troops (with over 75,000 dead or missing, and over 40,000 injured)>

1944 - <Re-establishment of Diplomatic Relations>

1945-1946 - Pietro Quaroni (ambassador / Moscow)

1946-1951 - Manlio Brosio (ambassador / Moscow)

1900s (II)

1950-1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo (physicist)

1951-1958 - Mario Di Stefano (ambassador)

1958-1961 - Luca Pietromarchi (ambassador)

1960 - <Giovanni Gronchi's visit to the USSR>

1961-1963 - Carlo Alberto Straneo (ambassador)

1961 - <Amintore Fanfani's visit to Moscow>

1964 - <The Russian city of Stavropol'-na-Volge was renamed "Togliatti" after the death of the leader of Italy's Communist Party>

1964-1968 - Federico Sensi (ambassador)

1966 - <Gromyko's visit to Italy>

1973-1975 - Piero Vinci (ambassador)

1973-present - <Establishment of the Italian School "Italo Calvino" in Moscow by ambassador Pietro Vinci>

1975-1977 - Enrico Aillaud (ambassador)

1977-1981 - Giuseppe Walter Maccotta (ambassador)

1981-1985 - Giovanni Migliuolo (ambassador)

1985-1989 - Sergio Romano (ambassador)

1986 - <Establishment of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura at Moskow>

1988-1991 - <Dissolution of the Soviet Union>

1989-1993 - Ferdinando Salleo (ambassador)

1990-1994 - Francesco Colasuonno (nuncio)

1993-1996 - Federico Di Roberto (ambassador)

1996-1999 - Emanuele Scammacca del Murgo e dell'Agnone (ambassador)

1999 - <Establishment of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura at San Petersburg>

1999-2001 - Giancarlo Aragona (ambassador)

2000s

2001-2006 - Gianfranco Facco Bonetti (ambassador)

2002-2010 - Antonio Mennini (nuncio)

2006-2010 - Vittorio Claudio Surdo (ambassador)

2007-present - Paolo Pezzi (Latin Bishop, Moscow)

2010-2013 - Antonio Zanardi Landi (ambassador)

2012-2015 - Fabio Capello (soccer manager)

2013-2018 - Cesare Maria Ragaglini (ambassador)

2016-2020 - Celestino Migliore (nuncio)

2018-2021 - Pasquale Terracciano (ambassador)

2020- Giovanni d’Aniello (nuncio)

2021- Giorgio Starace (ambassador)

2022 (Feb 24) - <Invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine>

Il compositore Catterino Al’bertovicˇ Cavos,originario di Venezia, (Venezia 1775 - S. Pietroburgo 1840) visse e lavoro` a S. Pietroburgo fino ai tempi di Michail Glinka. il librettista fiorentino Giuseppe Bonecchi seguı` la compagnia di Francesco Araja a S. Pietroburgo nel 1742 e gli fornı` cinque testi d’opera durante la permanenza di questi in Russia.

Apostolic Nuncios

Lorenzo Litta † (11 Feb 1797 Appointed - May 1799 Resigned)
Francesco Colasuonno † (15 Mar 1990 Appointed - 12 Nov 1994 Appointed, Apostolic Nuncio to Italy)
<John Bukovsky (Fukna)>, S.V.D. † (20 Dec 1994 Appointed - 29 Jan 2000 Retired)
<Giorgio Zur> (?) (29 Jan 2000 Appointed - 8 Oct 2002 Appointed, Apostolic Nuncio to Austria)
Antonio Mennini (6 Nov 2002 Appointed - 18 Dec 2010 Appointed, Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain)
<Ivan Jurkovič> (19 Feb 2011 Appointed - 13 Feb 2016 Appointed, Permanent Observer to United Nations Office and Specialized Agencies in Geneva)
Celestino Migliore (28 May 2016 Appointed - 11 Jan 2020 Appointed, Apostolic Nuncio to France)
Giovanni d’Aniello (1 Jun 2020 Appointed - )