Trojanovsky, Alexander Antonovich (1882-1955)

Soviet diplomat and the first Soviet ambassador to the United States. An active participant in Russia’s revolutionary movement, Trojanovsky was the Soviet ambassador (then called Polpred) to Japan from 1927 to 1933 and to the United States from 1934 to 1938. Beginning in 1939, he taught at the Higher Diplomatic School of the Soviet Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID), and from 1941, worked at the Sovinformburo. He wrote a number of works on Soviet foreign policy and international relations. ¹