Francis Lindley: a British diplomat and the Russian revolution

This article is based on the unpublished memoirs of the British chargé daffaires in Russia F.O. Lindley, reviews the activities of the British Embassy, the diplomatic representatives of Entente countries and F.O. Lindley himself in Russia in 1916.1918. The basic attention is given to sights of Lindley at events of revolutionary year 1917 and its estimations of key political figures of Russian revolution. It is concluded that Lindley has played a major role in Russian-British and Soviet-British relations and in the Entente intervention in the Northern Russia. His unpublished memoirs are informative and reliable historical source about «the Russian policy» of Great Britain in 1916.1918.