The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and the embassy is located in Moscow.

Until 1880, the Austrian embassy was located there at 102 Fontanka River Embankment, (Anglijskaja Nabereschnaja, English Quay).

On 6 August 1914 Franz Joseph I declared war on Tsar Nicholas II and Denmark became a protecting power in Russia.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990/91, the ambassador was responsible for almost all successor states but were, eventually replaced by new embassies.

As of 2015 the official area consists of Belarus and the Russian Federation ("Russia"), the Austrian Embassy in Moscow also entrusts Armenia (which has had an ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2012), and Uzbekistan in its consular district.