When, after a 63-hour flight, the crew of the ANT-25 aircraft landed at the Vancouver military airfield, the head of the local garrison, General George Marshall invited Valery Chkalov, Georgy Baydukov and Alexander Belyakov to his house. Soon Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky — a diplomat, revolutionary, and the first USSR ambassador to the USA — arrived there with congratulatory telegrams from the Soviet and American governments.
Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky was the son of an officer and graduated from the Voronezh Cadet Corps in 1900. He studied at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and served in Manchuria. He resigned as a lieutenant, was deprived of all the rights of a retired officer, arrested, and sentenced to administrative exile. Following the events, Troyanovsky emigrated abroad in 1910.
Troyanovsky liked the ideas of the Bolsheviks. While living in France and Austria, he collaborated with Lenin and met with Stalin. After the 1917 revolution, he returned to Russia, joined the army, took part in hostilities on the Southwestern Front, and then started a political career.
Despite the arrests, in the early 1920s, Alexander Troyanovsky was in the apparatus of the People’s Commissariat of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection of the RSFSR, which was led by Stalin at the time. After a little over five years, he was promoted to the Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Japan. On November 20, 1933, he became the Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in the United States.
The presentation of credentials to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took place not two weeks later which was the usual procedure, but the day after Troyanovsky’s arrival in Washington, which was evidence of the desire of the U.S. president to emphasize special respect and attention to the country. Welcoming Troyanovsky, Roosevelt expressed his satisfaction at the appointment of “a man known for his friendly attitude towards the USA” to the post of Soviet ambassador to Washington.
The years of Troyanovsky’s tenure as plenipotentiary representative of the USSR were distinguished by the formation of Soviet-American relations and the first steps towards cooperation in the trade, economic, scientific, and cultural spheres.
Troyanovsky was an influential figure and had direct access to Stalin, to whom he reported on the strengths of American life that were considered to be adopted by the USSR. In the late 1930s, in his reports from Washington, he advocated rapprochement with the United States in the face of the threat of Nazism.
Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky was the son of an officer and graduated from the Voronezh Cadet Corps in 1900. He studied at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and served in Manchuria. He resigned as a lieutenant, was deprived of all the rights of a retired officer, arrested, and sentenced to administrative exile. Following the events, Troyanovsky emigrated abroad in 1910.
Troyanovsky liked the ideas of the Bolsheviks. While living in France and Austria, he collaborated with Lenin and met with Stalin. After the 1917 revolution, he returned to Russia, joined the army, took part in hostilities on the Southwestern Front, and then started a political career.
Despite the arrests, in the early 1920s, Alexander Troyanovsky was in the apparatus of the People’s Commissariat of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection of the RSFSR, which was led by Stalin at the time. After a little over five years, he was promoted to the Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Japan. On November 20, 1933, he became the Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in the United States.
The presentation of credentials to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took place not two weeks later which was the usual procedure, but the day after Troyanovsky’s arrival in Washington, which was evidence of the desire of the U.S. president to emphasize special respect and attention to the country. Welcoming Troyanovsky, Roosevelt expressed his satisfaction at the appointment of “a man known for his friendly attitude towards the USA” to the post of Soviet ambassador to Washington.
The years of Troyanovsky’s tenure as plenipotentiary representative of the USSR were distinguished by the formation of Soviet-American relations and the first steps towards cooperation in the trade, economic, scientific, and cultural spheres.
Troyanovsky was an influential figure and had direct access to Stalin, to whom he reported on the strengths of American life that were considered to be adopted by the USSR. In the late 1930s, in his reports from Washington, he advocated rapprochement with the United States in the face of the threat of Nazism.
