List of ambassadors of Poland to Russia

Poland and Russia had exchanged diplomatic missions for centuries. The first ambassador in the modern meaning of this word, from Poland to Russia, was Antoni Augustyn Deboli, in late 18th century. After the period of partitions of Poland, in 1918, relations were established between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Union. After Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 those relations were broken, to be briefly reestablished in 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union and Polish government in exile agreed to cooperate against their common enemy, Nazi Germany. Those relations were broken in 1943 after discovery of the Katyn massacre. From that point onward, Soviet Union created its own puppet Polish government, which had its "ambassadors" in the Soviet Union. In 1989 the People's Republic of Poland was transformed into the modern Poland; in 1991, Soviet Union was transformed into modern Russia.

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth[]

1556
1571
1686 Krzysztof Grzymułtowski
1702
1704
1707–1709
1712 i
1717–1718
1718 Lesiowski
1719–1720 Stanisław Chomętowski
1735
1739–1743
1762
1763
1764
1764–1765
1765–1766
1766–1767
1767–1772 (rezydent)
1771 Franciszek Ksawery Branicki
1767–1792 Antoni Augustyn Deboli (first ambassador in the modern meaning of this word)

Second Polish Republic[]

Note: Second Republic was created in 1918. Its ambassadors were sent to the newly created successor state of Russia, the Soviet Union.

1917–1918 (of the Regency Council)
1918–1919 (j.w.)
1919–1920 (Minister Pełnomocny i Wysoki Komisarz RP na Syberię)
1921 Tytus Filipowicz (Chargé d'Affaires)
1921–1923 Roman Knoll (Poseł)
1923–1924 (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)
1924
1924–1925 (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)
1925–1926 Stanisław Kętrzyński
1926–1932 Stanisław Patek
1932–1933 (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)
1933–1934 Juliusz Łukasiewicz
1934–1936 Juliusz Łukasiewicz (Ambasador)
1936–1939 Wacław Grzybowski

Polish government-in-exile[]

Note: Legal successor of the Second Polish Republic.

1941 Józef Retinger (Chargé d'Affaires)
1941–1942 Stanisław Kot
1942 (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)
1942–1943 Tadeusz Romer

People's Republic of Poland[]

Note: Officially, People's Republic of Poland is the name used since 1952. Unofficially, this name is used for all Polish communist governments since 1944.

1944 Stefan Jędrychowski
1945 Zygmunt Modzelewski
1945–1946
1947–1950
1953–1957
1957–1959
1959–1963
1963–1964
1968–1971
1971 Zenon Nowak
1978–1982
1982–1985 Stanisław Kociołek
1985–1989

Third Polish Republic[]

Note: modern Poland.

1989–1996
1996–2002 Andrzej Załucki
2002–2005 Stefan Meller
2005–2006 (chargé d'affaires a.i.)
2006–2010 Jerzy Bahr
2010–2014 Wojciech Zajączkowski
2014–2016 Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz
2016–2020 Włodzimierz Marciniak
since 2021 – Krzysztof Krajewski