Boris Bakhmeteff | |
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Борис Бахметев | |
Russian Ambassador to the United States | |
In office 1917 | |
Preceded by | George Bakhmeteff |
Succeeded by | Maxim Litvinov |
Personal details | |
Born | Tbilisi, Russian Empire | May 14, 1880
Died | July 21, 1951 Brookfield, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 71)
Political party | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Mensheviks) |
Spouse(s) |
Helen Bakhmeteff
(m. 1905; died 1921)Marie C. Cole (m. 1938) |
Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff (Russian: Борис Александрович Бахметев) (also spelled Bakhmetieff or Bakhmetev) (May 14, 1880 – July 21, 1951) was an engineer, businessman, professor of civil engineering at Columbia University and the only ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States.[1] He was unrelated to his predecessor as ambassador, George Bakhmeteff.[2]