Alexander Izvolsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian diplomat
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Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
About Alexander Izvolsky
- Count Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky or Iswolsky (Russian: ??????´??? ?????´??? ????´??????, 18 March [O.S.
- 6 March] 1856, Moscow – 16 August 1919, Paris) was a Russian diplomat remembered as a major architect of Russia's alliance with Great Britain during the years leading to the outbreak of the First World War.
- As Foreign Minister, he assented to the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 in exchange for Austrian support for the opening of the Turkish Straits to Russian warships.
- The result was the Bosnian Crisis of 1908–1909, in which the Straits were not opened.
- Izvolsky was publicly humiliated and destroyed by the debacle and dismissed from office in 1910.
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