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Russian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
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Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
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This page lists foreign ministers of
Russian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
,
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
, and Russian Federation:
Heads of Posolsky Prikaz, 1549-1699
- Ivan Viskovatyi 1549-62
- Andrey Vasilyev 1562-1570
- Brothers Vasily and Andrey Shchelkalov
Vasily Yakovlevich Shchelkalov and Andrey Yakovlevich Shchelkalov Vasily Yakovlevich Shchelkalov (Василий Яковлевич Щелкалов in Russian) (? – 1610 or 1611) and Andrey Yakovlevich Shchelkalov (Андрей Яковлевич Щелкалов) Vasily Yakovlevich Shchelkalov (Василий Яковлевич Щелкалов in Russian) (? –...
1570-1601
- Afanasy Vlasyev 1601-05
- Ivan Gramotin 1605-06, 1610-12, 1618-26, 1634-35
- Vasily Telepnev 1606-10
- Pyotr Tretyakov 1613-18
- Efim Telepnev 1626-30
- Fedor Likhachov 1630-31, 1635-43
- Ivan Gryazev 1632-34
- Grigory Lvov 1643-46
- Nazary Chistoy 1647-48
- Mikhail Volosheninov 1648-53
- Almaz Ivanov
Almaz Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian statesman.From 1640 to 1646, Almaz Ivanov held the post of a dyak of the royal treasury . In 1646, he was transferred to the Posolsky Prikaz...
1653-67
- Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin
Afanasy Lavrentievich Ordin-Naschokin was one of the greatest Russian statesmen of the 17th century. His career is quite unprecedented in Russian history, as he was the first petty noble to attain the boyar title and highest offices of state owing not to family connections but due to his personal...
1667-71
- Artamon Matveyev 1671-76
- Larion Ivanov 1676-80
- Vasily Volynsky 1680-82
- Vasily Galitzine 1682-89
- Emelian Ukraintsev
Yemelyan Ignatievich Ukraintsev was a Russian diplomat and statesman.Ukraintsev started his career in civil service in 1660 as a podyachy in the Posolsky Prikaz...
1689-99
- Lev Naryshkin 1697-99
Chancellors and vice-chancellors of the Russian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
, 1699-1801
- Fyodor Golovin 1700-06
- Pyotr Shafirov 1706-08
- Gavriil Golovkin 1706-34
- Andrey Osterman 1734-40
- Aleksey Tcherkassky 1740-42
- Aleksey Bestuzhev-Ryumin 1744-58
- Mikhail Vorontsov
Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov was a Russian statesman and diplomat, who laid foundations for the fortunes of the Vorontsov family....
1758-63
- Nikita Panin 1763-81
- Ivan Osterman
Count Ivan Andreyevich Osterman was a Russian statesman, son of Andrei Osterman.After Osterman's father had fallen into disgrace, he was transferred from the Imperial Guards to the regular army and then sent abroad, where he would continue his education. In 1757, Osterman was in the Russian...
1781-97
- Aleksandr Bezborodko 1797-99
- Fyodor Rostopchin
Count Fyodor Vasilievich Rostopchin was a Russian statesman, who served as governor of Moscow during French invasion of Russia.Fyodor Rostopchin had great influence over the tsar Paul I, who made him in 1796 adjutant general, grand-marshal of the court, then Foreign Minister. In 1799, he received...
1799-1801
- Nikita Petrovich Panin
Count Nikita Petrovich Panin , a famous Russian diplomat, vice-chancellor, State Chancellor 6 Oct 1799 - 18 Nov 1800 and Foreign Minister of Russia. A nephew of Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, son of Petr Ivanovich Panin, son-in-law of Count Vladimir Orlov...
1801
Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire, 1801-1917
- Viktor Kochubey
Count Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey was a Russian statesman and a close aide of Alexander I of Russia. Of Ukrainian birth, he was a great-grandson of the celebrated Vasily Kochubey. He took part in the Privy Committee that outlined Government reform of Alexander I. He served in London and Paris...
1801-02
- Aleksandr Vorontsov 1802-04
- Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski was a Polish noble, statesman and author...
1804-06
- Andrei Budberg
Count Andrei Yakovlevich Budberg was a Russian diplomat who served as Foreign Minister in 1806-07.His ancestors moved to Russia in the 16th century from Westphalia. Budberg was born in Riga and entered the military service in 1759. He participated in the Russo-Turkish war 1768-1774. In 1783...
1806-08
- Nikolay Rumiantsev
The Rumyantsev family were Russian counts prominent in Russian imperial politics in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The family claimed descent from the boyar Rumyanets who broke his oath of allegiance and surrendered Nizhny Novgorod to Vasily I of Moscow in 1391.The first Rumyantsev to gain...
1807-14
- Karl Nesselrode
Baltic-German Count Karl Robert Nesselrode, also known as Charles de Nesselrode, was a Russian diplomat and a leading European conservative statesman of the Holy Alliance. His autobiography was published posthumously in 1866.He was born in Lisbon, Portugal where his father Baltic-German Count Karl...
1814-56
- John Capodistria 1816-22 (jointly with Nesselrode)
- Alexander Gorchakov 1856-82
- Nicholas de Giers
Nikolay Karlovich Giers was a Russian Foreign Minister during the reign of Alexander III. He was one of the architects of the Franco-Russian Alliance, which was later transformed into the Triple Entente.- Biography :...
1882-95
- Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Prince Alexey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky Prince Alexey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky Prince Alexey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky ( (December 30, 1824–August 30, 1896) was a Russian statesman, probably best remembered for having concluded the Li-Lobanov Treaty with China and for his...
1895-96
- Nikolay Shishkin 1896-97
- Mikhail Muravyov
Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov was a Russian statesman who advocated transferring the attention of Russian foreign policy from Europe to the Far East...
1897-1900
- Vladimir Lambsdorff
Count Vladimir Nikolayevich Lambsdorff was a Russian statesman of Baltic German descent who served as Foreign Minister in 1900 1906, a crucial period which included the Russo-Japanese War and the Russian Revolution of 1905.- Early career :Like so many other Russian diplomats, Lambsdorff was...
1900-06
- Alexander Izvolski
Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky or Iswolsky was a Russian diplomat remembered as a major architect of Russia's alliance with the British Empire during the years leading to the outbreak of the First World War.Having graduated from the Alexander Lyceum with honours, Izvolsky married Countess von Toll,...
1906-10
- Sergey Sazonov
Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov GCB was a Russian statesman who served as Foreign Minister from September 1910 to June 1916...
1910-16
- Boris Stürmer
Boris Vladimirovich Stürmer was a Russian courtier who has passed into history "as an obsequious follower of Rasputin, of whom he was only the puppet". He served as Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Interior Minister of the Russian Empire for several months during 1916.A graduate of the Law...
1916
- Nikolay Pokrovsky 1916-17
Foreign Ministers of the Russian Provisional GovernmentThe Russian Provisional Government was the short-lived administrative body which sought to govern Russia immediately following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in February 1917. In September 14, the State Duma of the Russian Empire officially dissolved the newly created Directorate, and the...
, 1917
- Pavel Milyukov
Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov , a Russian politician, was the founder, leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic party...
March-May, 1917
- Mikhail Tereshchenko
Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko was a foreign minister of Russia from May 5, 1917 to October 25, 1917, old style...
May-October, 1917
Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia
- Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky , born Leyba Davidov Bronstein , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin...
November 1917-March 1918
- Georgy Chicherin
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin was a Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He served as People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from March 1918 to 1930.-Biography:...
1918-22
Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1922-91
- Georgy Chicherin
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin was a Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He served as People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from March 1918 to 1930.-Biography:...
1922-30
- Maxim Litvinov
Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian-Jewish revolutionary and prominent Soviet diplomat.-Early life and first exile:...
1930-39
- Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev...
1939-1949
- Andrey Vyshinsky
Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinskiy – November 22, 1954) was a Russian and Soviet jurist and diplomat. He is mostly known as a state prosecutor of Stalin's show trials. He served as the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953.-Biography:Vyshinsky was born into a Polish Catholic family in...
1949-1953
- Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev...
1953-1956
- Dmitri Shepilov
Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov was a Soviet politician and foreign minister who joined the abortive plot to oust Nikita Khruschev from power in 1957.-Childhood:Dmitri Shepilov was born to a worker's family in Askhabad...
June 1956-February 1957
- Andrey Gromyko 14 February 1957- 27 July 1985
- Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Shevardnadze served as the President of Georgia from 1995 until he resigned on 23 November 2003 as a consequence of the bloodless Rose Revolution...
28 July 1985-20 December 1991
- Aleksandr Bessmertnykh
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bessmertnykh briefly served as foreign minister of the USSR during 1991, replacing Eduard Shevardnadze. During the August coup of 1991 he did not lend his support to the attempt at removing Gorbachev from power, but refused to condemn the plotters...
15 January - 28 August 1991
- Boris Pankin
Boris Dimitrievich Pankin was Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union for a brief period in 1991.-Earlier career:A reformer and journalist, Pankin was Soviet Ambassador to Sweden for eight years from 1982-1990...
28 August - November 14 1991
- Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Shevardnadze served as the President of Georgia from 1995 until he resigned on 23 November 2003 as a consequence of the bloodless Rose Revolution...
November 19 - December 26 1991
Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1992-
- Andrey Kozyrev
Andrey Vladimirovich Kozyrev was the foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from October 1990 until his dismissal in January 1996.The son of a Soviet diplomat, he was born in Brussels, Belgium....
1991-96
- Yevgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician, a former KGB general and a former Prime Minister of Russia. He was also the last Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and the Russian Foreign Minister...
1996-98
- Igor Ivanov
Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov became the Russian Foreign Minister in 1998, succeeding Yevgeny Primakov.He is the son of a Russian father and a Georgian mother. In 1969 he graduated at the Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages...
1998-2004
- Sergei Lavrov 2004-