{"record":{"aliases":["George Petrovich Bakhmeteff","Georgy Petrovich Bakhmetev","Георгий Петрович Бахметев"],"appointmentIds":["russia-b185bdd9eae940"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/george-bakhmeteff-33188f2b36/","countrySlug":"russia","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/george-bakhmeteff-33188f2b36/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["George Petrovich Bakhmeteff entered Russian government service in 1870 and built his career across Europe, Asia, and the United States. He served as a junior secretary in Washington and Paris, then in Greece, before becoming Russia’s representative in Bulgaria and ambassador to Japan. He returned to Washington as ambassador in 1911. His wife was the American Mary Beale.","On October 1, 1914, Bakhmeteff and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan signed a treaty creating a procedure for investigating disputes between their countries. Questions left unsettled by diplomacy were to go before an international commission of five members, and both governments undertook to refrain from force while an investigation was in progress. Ratifications were exchanged in Washington in March 1915.","In April 1915 he brought the Armenian Catholicos’s appeal for civilian protection to the American government. Bryan’s resulting instruction to Ambassador Henry Morgenthau asked him to press the Ottoman authorities to protect Armenians against violence.","The Russian Revolution ended his imperial appointment. On March 18, 1917, he nevertheless transmitted Foreign Minister Pavel Milyukov’s account of the monarchy’s collapse and the Provisional Government’s promise to honor Russia’s international commitments. He retired that spring, later settled in France with his wife, and died in Paris in 1928."],"id":"russia:george bakhmeteff","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-33188f2b3690a58b8ef1.html","name":"George Bakhmeteff","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["george-volkov","george-reference"],["george-peace"],["george-armenians"],["george-revolution","george-reference"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-33188f2b3690a58b8ef1.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"26a3dc2da30023ac","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"george-volkov","locator":"Bakhmetev entry, electronic page 7","publisher":"S. V. Volkov; published dictionary excerpt","title":"S. V. Volkov, Высшее чиновничество Российской империи: Бахметев Георгий Петрович","type":"reference","url":"https://iknigi.net/avtor-sergey-volkov/133517-vysshee-chinovnichestvo-rossiyskoy-imperii-kratkiy-slovar-sergey-volkov/read/page-7.html"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"george-reference","locator":"Biography and family fields; underlying references followed where accessible","publisher":"Russian Wikipedia","title":"Бахметев, Георгий Петрович","type":"reference","url":"https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бахметев,_Георгий_Петрович"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"george-peace","locator":"39 Stat. 1622–1625, preamble and Articles I–II","publisher":"U.S. Statutes at Large, Government Publishing Office","title":"Treaty between the United States and Russia for the advancement of general peace","type":"primary-record","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-39/pdf/STATUTE-39-Pg1622.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"george-armenians","locator":"FRUS 1915 Supplement, document 1394","publisher":"U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States","title":"The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau), April 27, 1915","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1915Supp/d1394"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"george-revolution","locator":"FRUS 1918, Russia, vol. I, document 6","publisher":"U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States","title":"The Russian Ambassador (Bakméteff) to the Secretary of State, March 18, 1917","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1918Russiav01/d6"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"2026-10-23","id":"mission-8f6fa2a0dec7248a7d09","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"State Department, Office of the Chief of Protocol — Russia (2007 archive)","type":"Mission record","url":"https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/cpr/94409.htm"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"","id":"mission-f88b329ad5620752b1a5","locator":"State Department protocol chronology. Dates of appointment, arrival and credential presentation are distinguished in the individual roster entries.","publisher":"","title":"Diplomatic Representation for Russia","type":"Mission record","url":"https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/94409.htm"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 27 October 2026","id":"mission-5ce096e495393cb80ff2","locator":"Gives George Bakhmeteff’s service dates as 28 November 1911–20 April 1917 and identifies Onou as counselor and chargé.","publisher":"","title":"Office of the Historian — Principal persons: George Bakhmeteff and C. Onou","type":"Mission record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1918Russiav01/persons"}],"topics":["Peace treaties","Armenian civilian protection","Russian Revolution","Japan","Bulgaria"]},"schemaVersion":1}