After her spell in Tallinn she had been posted in 1928 to the American legation in Riga, the capital of Latvia (where her boss was George Kennan, who was to become famous diplomatically for advocating the "containment" of the Soviet Union, which became the basis of American policy during the cold war).
Compounding that, the Foreign Office in the mid-1980s refused to support the Estonian claim to diplomatic immunity from taxes, and Torma's legation, with its precious contents, was sold off, in a muddled and incompetent way that still rankles among Estonian emigres.
Ms Foreman records some telling vignettes: Henry Adams's description of John Bright, greatest of Liberal parliamentary orators, shaking an opponent as a mastiff might shake a terrier, and sour Benjamin Moran, of the Union legation in London, exposing the insincerity of the Adams family's proclaimed indifference to London society.
Soomre received the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and died two years later.An anonymous Latvian (or Latvians) showed similar spirit, safeguarding the brass nameplate of the prewar British legation in Riga for 50 years.
In January 1919 he was identified by the Swedish authorities as a Bolshevik and deported with the Russian legation.
Fearing for his own life, King Kojong took refuge in the Russian legation, where he granted such concessions as mining and lumbering franchises to Russia and other powers.
Having gained the favour of the emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus (1282 1328) and of ecclesiastics in Constantinople, Gregoras was entrusted with diplomatic missions, including a legation to the Serbian king Stephan Uroš III in 1326.
After graduating from Yale in 1853, White studied in Europe for the next three years, serving also as attaché at the U.S. legation at St .Petersburg, Russia, in 1854 55.
Nervo lived in Madrid (1905 18), serving as secretary to the Mexican legation there and spending a considerable amount of time in Paris literary circles.
Algardi emphasized Leo's munificence with allegorical figures of liberality and magnanimity as well as the relief sculpture Cardinal de' Medici's Legation to France.
Thereupon the patriarch excommunicated the legation and its supporters.
