Embassy Compound

The place of our first female ambassador.

Already in 1631 the first permanent diplomatic mission in Moscow was set up by the Swedish envoyé to Russia, Johan Möller. Following his death, in the autumn of 1632, his widow was appointed his successor and there through she became Sweden’s first female ambassador of Sweden. During the 18th century, the diplomatic mission was relocated to S:t Petersburg but was later, in connection with the revolution in 1917, moved back to Moscow.       
After 15 years of protracted negotiations, the construction of what was to become the new Swedish Embassy in Moscow, started on the 2nd of July 1968. In was completed in 1972.

Architect Anders Tengbom.

Complementary installation

In the summer of 2002 a complementary annex to the new Migration section was opened at the Embassy. The complementary building was built in order to cope with an enlarged amount of visa applications that the Schengen agreement has led to. 
The new annex has eight booths for interviews in comparison to the earlier two.

A convenient continuation

The exterior of the annex id of the same stile as the older building. At the inside two big archives have been built together with storage rooms.    
At ground-level a new office landscape has been created by the help of glass walls. A big lantern provides the relatively ”deep” house with complementary daylight. 

The new annex is connected to the old one, which has been renovated to modern standard.

The annex is 325 sqm and the old building 300 sqm in one single plane.

Rossolimo 8

This old timbered house from the beginning of the 19th century is quite unique with its spacious garden squeezed in between the tall buildings of the surrounding city. The Embassy’s cultural counsellor resides in the house. The house has a long history and was, among other things, hit by incendiary bombs in the summer of 1941. A big part of the roof was destroyed by the following fire and great damage was also inflicted by the water used to extinguish it. Fortunately, it was mainly the house’s backside that came to be affected while the representational part was left unhurt.