The last British Consul General in Saint Petersburg was Monika Sangeeta Ahuja; she was appointed to the post in February 2017, and arrived there in December of the same year.

[1] Before the October Revolution of 1917, the British embassy in Russia was seated in Saint Petersburg, in a palace overlooking the Troitsky Bridge.

[2] In 1924, after the Russian Civil War, Great Britain was the first foreign power to recognize the new Soviet government, sending an ambassador in 1924.

[3] As the Russian Federation replaced the Soviet Union, the British Consulate-General in St. Petersburg was re-opened, and Barbara Hay was appointed as its first new Consul-General in 1992.

[7][8] In 2018, in response to the UK's decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, Russia closed the Consulate-General, while also expelling 23 British diplomats and closing the office of the British Council in Russia.