People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский The first Soviet diplomat, a bridge between revolution, letters, and diplomacy, felled by a bullet in Lausanne
- Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939
- Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan
- Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky Андрей Януарьевич Вышинский Stalin's Moscow-trial prosecutor who later carried hardline Soviet diplomacy to the UN
- Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison
- Leon Yakovlevich Gaikis Леон Яковлевич Гайкис Second Soviet ambassador to Spain, recalled and shot barely three months after taking the post