expense of the Austrian dominions in Transylvania, Bukovina, and the Banat. In general, "his calm and courteous manner did much to maintain fruitful Allied relations". He accepted an announcement of the professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk for Russian army soldiers to not shoot on the Czech refugees in October 1914. Sazonov was viewed favourably in London, but the Germanophile faction of Tsarina Alexandra fiercely urged his dismissal, which did materialize on 10 July and only after the minister had aired a proposal to grant autonomy to Poland. Later life Early in 1917, Sazonov was appointed ambassador in Great Britain, but found it necessary to remain in Russia, where he witnessed the February Revolution. He was opposed to Bolshevism, advised Anton Denikin on international affairs, and was foreign minister in the anti-Bolshevik government of Admiral Kolchak. In 1919 he represented the Provisional All-Russian Government, the Allied recognized government of Russia, at the Paris Peace Conference. Sazonov spent his last years in France writing a book of memoirs. He died in Nice where he is buried. See also Russian entry into World War I References Further reading Gooch, G.P. Before the war: studies in diplomacy (2 vol 1936, 1938) online vol 2 pp 289–370. External links 1860 births 1927 deaths People from Ryazan Governorate Russian nobility Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom Russian anti-communists Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum alumni Russian people of World War I Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France