Alexey Fedorovich Kruglov (Алексей Фёдорович Круглов; 1864, St. Petersburg - 1948, Beirut) - Russian diplomat, state councilor, consul general in Baghdad, Aleppo, Jerusalem. He is wearing three classes of the Lion and Sun order.
Alexey Fedorovich Kruglov began his diplomatic work in the mid-1880s. In the early 1890s, already with the rank of collegiate secretary, he served as secretary and dragoman at the Russian consulate in Baghdad . From 1904 to 1908 - Consul General in Aleppo . From 1908 to 1914 - headed the Russian Imperial Consulate General in Jerusalem. While occupying the post of Consul General, Alexey Fedorovich Kruglov did a lot to strengthen the position of the Russian Empire in Palestine. He worked closely and helped the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society in everything, for which he was awarded the IOPS badge. He tirelessly monitored and protected the status quo of holy places, and provided assistance and support to Orthodox pilgrims. From 1915 until the beginning of the October Revolution he lived in St. Petersburg.
The family of Alexei Fedorovich Kruglov moved from revolutionary Petrograd to Novorossiysk, from where they emigrated to Egypt. A.F. Kruglov, however, did not emigrate, but was appointed in April-May 1920 “the head of Russian interests in Palestine.” In this field, he was unable to resist the British, who did not recognize Kruglov’s authority and expropriated the former territories and property of the Russian Empire in Palestine. A.F. Kruglov spent the last years of his life in Lebanon and died in 1948. He was buried in Shueifat, a suburb of Beirut.
Uniform of Alexey Fedorovich Kruglov /private collection/.