Sergey Sazonov
Sergei Dmitryevich Sazonov GCB (Russian: Сергей Дмитриевич Сазонов; 10 August 1860 in
Ryazan Governorate 11 December 1927) was a
Russian statesman and diplomat who served as
Foreign Minister from November 1910 to July 1916. The degree of his involvement in the events leading up to the outbreak of
World War I is a matter of keen debate, with some historians putting the blame for an early and provocative
mobilization squarely on Sazonov's shoulders, and others maintaining that his chief preoccupation was "to reduce the temperature of international relations, especially in the
Balkans".
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