Mikhail Nikolayevich von Giers

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) and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Consul Kirchknopf) in 1912

Mikhail Nikolayevich von Giers (alternatively styled Mikhail Nikolaevich von Giers or Mikhail Nikolayevich de Giers) (1856–1924) was an

Russian Foreign Minister Nikolay Girs
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Career

Giers served as the Imperial Russian

Black Sea Raid, Giers maintained a network of informants in the Ottoman government.[3] Giers was withdrawn from Constantinople on 31 October 1914, shortly before the Russian declaration of war on the Empire.[4] From 1915 to 1917 he was the Russian ambassador to Italy.[1]

He is buried in Batignolles Cemetery in Paris.

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