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Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin (born Nov. 24, 1872, Tambov province, Russia—died July 7, 1936, Moscow) diplomat who executed Soviet foreign policy from 1918 until 1928. An aristocrat by birth, Chicherin entered the imperial diplomatic service after graduating from the University of St. Petersburg (1897).

CHICHERIN, GEORGY VASILIEVICH. (1872 – 1936), revolutionary and diplomat. Georgy Chicherin was born on November 12, 1872, in Karaul, Tambov Province, into an aristocratic family of declining fortunes. He studied in the history and philology faculty at St. Petersburg University.

In 1918, Georgy Chicherin, a homosexual man who kept his homosexuality hidden, was appointed as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR. In 1923, Chicherin was also appointed People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, a position he held until 1930.

The Soviet statesman Georgi Vasilyevich Chicherin (1872-1936) guided Soviet foreign policy in the years following the foundation of the U.S.S.R. Born in Tambov Oblast in 1872, Georgi Chicherin was a member of the Russian aristocracy—an unlikely background for a future Bolshevik.

Georgy Chicherin (left) and Maxim Litvinov, then-deputy commissar of foreign affairs, both attended the Sept. 28, 1927, meeting during which it was decided to allow the Rebbe to leave the USSR with his family and library.

Moreover, that Georgy Chicherin (1872-1936) was gay (he was not outspoken about his sexuality, however) did not hinder his appointment as Leon Trotsky’s successor as People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs in 1918. He became one of the most visible figures in the USSR until he left the position in 1930.

Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin (or Tchitcherin; Russian: Георгий Васильевич Чичерин; 24 November 1872 – 7 July 1936) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician who served as the first People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from March 1918 to July 1930.