Nikolay de Girs or Giers (Russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Гирс; 21 May [O.S. 9 May] 1820 – 26 January [O.S. 14 January] 1895) was a Russian statesman and diplomat who served as the foreign minister from 1882 to 1895, during the reign of Alexander III.

Nikolay Karlovich Giers was a statesman and foreign minister of Russia during the reign of Alexander III (ruled 1881–94). He guided Russia into a rapprochement with France and thereby formed the basis of the Russo-Franco-British alliance …

Nikolai Karlovich Giers (nyĬkəlī´ kär´ləvĬch gēyĕrs´), 1820–95, Russian statesman. Appointed deputy foreign minister in 1875, he increasingly took over the duties of the elderly foreign minister Aleksandr Gorchakov, whom he succeeded in 1882.

GIERS, NICHOLAS KARLOVICH DE (1820–1895), Russian statesman, was born on the 21st of May 1820. Like his predecessor, Prince Gorchakov, he was educated at the lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo, near St Petersburg, but his career was much less rapid, because he had no influential protectors, and was handicapped by being a Protestant of Teutonic origin.

Giers states that his personal preference was to enter military service, but he was shrewd enough to realize that opportunities in the Russian Imperial Army for a young man without social position or wealth would have been severely limited, while a carefully calculated diplomatic career could afford him a chance for advancement, and would ...

Nicholas de Giers (Nikolay Karlovich Girs) (1820 1895) was a Russian Foreign Minister during the reign of Alexander III. He was one of the architects of the Franco Russian Alliance, which was later transformed into the Triple Entente.

Giers, Nikolai Karlovich nyĭkəlīˈ kärˈləvĭch gēyĕrsˈ [key], 1820–95, Russian statesman. Appointed deputy foreign minister in 1875, he increasingly took over the duties of the elderly foreign minister Aleksandr Gorchakov, whom he succeeded in 1882. He sought to preserve the Three Emperors' League with Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Nicolas Karlovitch de Giers (en russe : Николай Карлович Гирс), né le 21 mai 1820 à Radziwilow, dans la province de Volhynie, et décédé le 26 janvier 1895 à Saint-Pétersbourg, est un homme politique russe qui fut diplomate et ministre des Affaires étrangères de 1882 à 1895, il succéda au prince Alexandre Gortchakov.

Nikolay Girs was a Russian Foreign Minister during the reign of Alexander III.

The character of our main subject, Nicholas Karlovich Giers, is in many ways elusive. Until the Russian foreign ministry archives are open and until more of Giers’s instructions and reports are published, it will not be possible to make an accurate estimate of his foreign policy or of his success in achieving his goals.