title: Gromyko, Andrei
abstract: Born in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Andrie Andreyevich Gromyko rose rapidly at a young age in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, specialising initially in relations with the United States, and served as personal protégé of Vyacheslav Molotov, one of Stalin’s closest associates and the long-serving Minister of Foreign Affairs during World War II and the beginnings of the Cold War. Taking part in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, Gromyko was also instrumental in the origins of the Unite