Museum of Diplomatic Corps
| Музей дипломатического корпуса | |
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| Established | 16 July 1997 |
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| Location | Vologda, Russia |
| Coordinates | 59°12′48″N 39°53′31″E / 59.2133°N 39.8920°E |
| Type | private |
| Visitors | more than 2000 (2011) |
| Director | Alexander Bykov |
| Public transit access | Vologda, Bus-stop «1000 melochey». Buses #5, 6, 12,17, 25, 49, 104 or trolleybuses #2, 2а. |
| Website | http://www.musdip.org |
The Museum of Diplomatic Corps (Russian: Музей дипломатического корпуса) is a private historical museum located in Russian city Vologda. It is situated in a wooden manor that belonged to a noble Pavel Puzan-Puzyrevsky (a listed building of the first third of the 19th century) where, in 1918, the American Embassy was quartered. The exposition of the museum is devoted to little known events which took place in Vologda in February–July 1918, and is connected with a stay of 11 foreign embassies and diplomatic missions headed by the American Ambassador David Rowland Francis.
Museum was closed on 4 November 2012.
In late February 1918, for about 5 months, Vologda became the so-called "diplomatic capital of Russia". Afraid of Petrograd's capture by the German forces, representatives of 11 embassies evacuated to Vologda. Among them were the American, British, French, Serbian, Belgian, Siamese and Italian embassies, the Brazilian consulate and the Japanese, Chinese, and Swedish-Danish diplomatic missions led by the American Ambassador, David R. Francis.
D.R. Francis chose Vologda because of its distant location from the front line, its convenience in telegraph communication, and its intersection of important railroads which could be useful in case of an urgent evacuation of the missions in any direction.
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