{"record":{"aliases":["Mikhail Fyodorovich Bartolomey","Michel de Bartholomei","Михаил Фёдорович Бартоломей"],"appointmentIds":["russia-7d979d5686c570"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/mikhail-bartholomei-bf0accf9db/","countrySlug":"russia","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/mikhail-bartholomei-bf0accf9db/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Mikhail Bartholomei (1836–1895) graduated from the Alexander Lyceum in 1854, in the same class as Arthur Cassini. His early diplomatic work took him to Constantinople and Tehran, where he also acted as chargé d’affaires. He subsequently served in the Foreign Ministry’s chancery and handled frontier affairs for the Caucasus administration before becoming counselor at the Russian embassy in London in 1870.","His London assignment included work for historians. Bartholomei helped secure access to diplomatic papers in the British Foreign Office archives and arrange their copying for publication by the Imperial Russian Historical Society. The society admitted him as a member in 1873. A brief appointment to Greece preceded his transfer to Washington in 1880.","Bartholomei represented Russia through the assassination of Alexander II in March 1881. Alexander III’s letter announcing his accession renewed the minister’s authority to speak for the new emperor. Bartholomei then conveyed imperial thanks for the U.S. Senate’s condolences, adding his own appreciation of Secretary of State James G. Blaine’s expressions of sympathy.","He moved to Japan in 1882 but retired later that year. He returned to the Foreign Ministry’s service in 1889. He died in 1895."],"id":"russia:mikhail bartholomei","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-bf0accf9dba06fa95390.html","name":"Mikhail Bartholomei","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["bartholomei-reference"],["bartholomei-reference"],["bartholomei-accreditation","bartholomei-condolences"],["bartholomei-reference"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-bf0accf9dba06fa95390.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"b95d663941c77012","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"bartholomei-reference","locator":"Career and historical-society paragraphs","publisher":"Russian Diplomats biographical reference","title":"Михаил Фёдорович Бартоломей","type":"reference","url":"https://rusdiplomats.narod.ru/bartolomey-mf.html"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"bartholomei-accreditation","locator":"1881, document 636, printed no. 632","publisher":"U.S. Department of State, FRUS","title":"The Czar to the President, March 4/16, 1881","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1881/d636"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"bartholomei-condolences","locator":"1881, document 638, printed no. 634","publisher":"U.S. Department of State, FRUS","title":"Mr. Bartholomei to Mr. Blaine, March 17, 1881","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1881/d638"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 26 October 2026","id":"mission-aa1f0eeda53e1db3578b","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"CoM coverage audit: Russian ministerial chronology","type":"Mission record","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Russia_to_the_United_States"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 27 October 2026","id":"mission-861afcbc3e63b5a8f8b4","locator":"Describes the traditional tricolor, nineteenth-century coexistence with imperial colors, 1896 national confirmation, use until 1918, and the 1991/1993 changes in shades and proportions. Historical flags use illustrative colors; exact historical shades remain unresolved.","publisher":"","title":"Presidential Library — history of the Russian flag","type":"Mission record","url":"https://www.prlib.ru/gosudarstvennaya-simvolika-flag-rossiyskoy-federacii"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 27 October 2026","id":"mission-c5e600d2a9321cec0767","locator":"Proceedings of the International Congress of Vexillology: black–yellow–white introduced in 1858; white–blue–red continued in use and received renewed official recognition in 1883. The database uses black–yellow–white consistently as an Imperial Russia emblem, while this source documents the historical variation.","publisher":"","title":"Platoff and Knowlton — Old Flags, New Meanings","type":"Mission record","url":"https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3746/files/old_flags_new_meanings.pdf"}],"topics":["Alexander Lyceum","historical archives","Alexander II assassination","Japan"]},"schemaVersion":1}