Miroslav Spalajković, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Miroslav Spalajković

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1869

Place of Birth: Kragujevac, Serbia

Date of Death: 04-Feb-1951

Profession: diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Miroslav Spalajkovic (18 April 1869 – 4 February 1951) was a Serbian diplomat, best known for his actions as the envoy to the Russian Empire in Saint Petersburg during the July Crisis of the summer of 1914.
An outspoken opponent of Austria-Hungary, Spalajkovic's public statements to Russian media denied any Serbian culpability in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his reports back to the Serbian government guaranteed Russian military support.
While Czar Nicholas II and much of the Russian leadership was committed to Serbian autonomy, no Russian leader actually guaranteed Spalajkovic or Serbia of Russian military support during the July Crisis.
Spalajkovic's optimistic telegrams, largely based on public demonstrations and uncorroborated discussion, reassured the Serbian government that they could risk an Austro-Hungarian military attack.
Without Spalajkovic's guarantee of Russian support, some historians argue that Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašic would have ultimately yielded to Austrian demands, thereby avoiding the sequence of events that led to the First World War.