World's First Woman Ambassador, Alexandra Kolontay
Alexandra Kolontay (or Kollontai), (1872 - 1952), Marxist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1915 on as a Bolshevik (later Communist). In 1922, Kollontai was appointed a diplomatic counsellor to the Soviet legation in Norway, being soon promoted to head of the legation, one of the first women to hold such a post
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12639673
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46133369
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4298px x 5241px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Sphere', 11 October 1924, page 53
Date
1924
