A Virtual Tour Through Great Cities of Central Europe

Join retired U.S. Ambassador George Krol on a virtual tour of the historic and fascinating Central European cities of Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Cracow. Drawing on his personal experiences, knowledge and research, Ambassador Krol will highlight the interconnected geographic, historical, architectural, political and economic context of these cities through wars, revolutions, uprisings and the rise, collapse and resurrections of states, kingdoms and empires.

George Krol is a retired career U.S. diplomat, who spent 36 years in the U.S. Foreign Service (1982-2018) serving in senior positions both in the U.S. State Department in Washington and in U.S. diplomatic missions abroad, including posts as ambassador to Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Krol, a resident of Middletown, Rhode Island, currently serves as an adjunct professor at the U.S. Naval War College and is an associate of Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.