Destinul unui fost consul onorific al României la Moscova: Pierre Guérin
The fate of a former honorary consul of Romania in Moscow: Pierre Guérin

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of 1912, the post of honorary consul of Romania in Moscow was vacant. Constantin G. Nanu, the Romanian minister in Petersburg, had two candidacies in front of him: Grigorie Suslov and Pierre Guérin. After asking the Russian Foreign Ministry and the honorary consul in Petersburg for information, he chose Guérin, a Russian subject of French origin. In this text, we intended to bring to the attention of those interested in the history of Romanian diplomacy or the history of Romanian-Russian/Soviet relations some aspects of the biography of the one who was the honorary consul of Romania in Moscow during the First World War and its destiny in the interwar period. We noticed that – after he brought significant services to the Romanian state, especially in the period 1916-1918 – in the first interwar years, the Romanian Ministers of Foreign Affairs found various funds in the ministry to reward him. Until 1931, Guérin received money from the Romanian state, and although between 1920-1921 was also discussed the granting of Romanian citizenship, the decisive step towards granting it was not taken.

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