Neratov, Anatoly Anatolyevich

The son of a senator, a real privy adviser Anatoly Ivanovich Neratov .

He graduated from the Alexander Lyceum (1883). In 1886 he entered the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and went successively from clerk to clerk under the Minister and senior vice director of the same department (since 1904); Full State Councilor (March 28, 1904); In 1909 he was granted the title of Chamberlain .

For all the years of service he did not occupy a single foreign post. From 1910 to 1916 - Comrade Minister of Foreign Affairs S. D. Sazonov . ^[2] On December 6, 1911 he was granted the rank of Hoffmeister . Having become a minister’s companion, during a long illness of the then minister, S. D. Sazonov managed the ministry. Being, according to the testimony of Yu. Y. Solovyov, “a typical bureaucrat” and “not having his own views on Russian foreign policy,” he agreed with A.P. Izvolsky (the Russian ambassador in Paris ). Neratov was known for the fact that during his entire service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he had never been abroad.

In November-December 1916 - Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs . Since 1916, member of the Council of State .

From 1916 to the February Revolution of 1917 , he was a fellow Minister of Foreign Affairs N. N. Pokrovsky .

From February 27, 1917 to March 2, 1917 - Manager of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On November 3, 1917, the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee (VRK), having received information about Neratov’s absence in his apartment, concluded that he “disappeared without handing over the case,” and ruled that Neratov was “subject to arrest and surrender to a revolutionary court.” The next day, this decree was published in the newspapers "to intimidate saboteurs." However, firstly, as follows from the statement of A.M. Petryaev, printed on the same day, “none of the officials of the ministry thought of hiding and refuses to transfer cases”, and secondly, according to newspapers, “no repressive measures so far not been undertaken. " In addition, it is known that on November 4, Neratov attended the general meeting of employees of the ministry, convened at the request of the Bolsheviks. In November, Neratov participated in meetings of the so-called. The "small" Provisional Government in the apartment of A. A. Demyanov, where he acted as Minister of Foreign Affairs instead of the arrested M. I. Tereshchenko . There (and then in print) he had to give explanations in connection with the publication by the Bolsheviks of a number of secret diplomatic documents. Soon after, he left for the South, where under Denikin he took part in a special meeting under the Supreme Commander of the All-Union Socialist League .

After the end of the Civil War - in exile. In April 1920, by order of General P.N. Wrangel, he was appointed head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Constantinople . ^[3]

He died in the Russian hospital of the city of Villejuif (France) on April 10, 1938 ^[4] .

He was married to Varvara Vladimirovna Molostvova (May 16, 1872 - September 26, 1936).

Neratov was a gentleman of many Russian and foreign orders, including:

• Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1895)
• Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree (1898)
• Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree (1901)
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1908)
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1910)
• Order of St. Anne 1st degree (1913)

• The past. Sat - Paris, Atheneum, 1986.

• RGALI - Transcript of the interrogation of Anatoly Anatolyevich Neratov by the Extraordinary Investigation Commission of the Provisional Government (inaccessible link)

• List of civil ranks of the fourth class. Corrected on March 1, 1907. - SPb. , 1907. - S. 1744-1746.
• List of civilian ranks of the first three classes. Corrected on September 1, 1914. - Pg. , 1914. - S. 545-547.