Heads of Posolsky Prikaz, 1549-1699

• Ivan Viskovatyi 1549-62
• Andrey Vasilyev
  Andrey Vasilyev
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   1562-1570
• Brothers Vasily and Andrey Shchelkalov
  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
  
• Vasily Telepnev 1606-10
• Ivan Gramotin 1610-12
• Pyotr Tretyakov 1613-18
• Ivan Gramotin 1618-26
• Efim Telepnev 1626-30
• Fedor Likhachov 1630-31
• Ivan Gryazev 1632-34
• Ivan Gramotin 1634-35
• Fedor Likhachov 1635-43
• Grigory Lvov 1643-46
• Nazary Chistoy 1647-48
• Mikhail Volosheninov 1648-53
• Almaz Ivanov
  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 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
  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 . He served under the supervision of Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, which whom he would go on a diplomatic mission to Warsaw in 1662-1663...
  
   1689-99
• Lev Naryshkin 1697-99

Chancellors and vice-chancellors of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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, 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
  Mikhail Illarionovich 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
  Ivan Osterman
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   1781-97
• Aleksandr Bezborodko 1797-99
• Fyodor Rostopchin
  Fyodor Rostopchin
  Count Fyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin was a Russian statesman, who served as governor of Moscow during French invasion of Russia.Rostopchin was born in Orel, son of Vasily Fyodorovich Rostopchin, Lord of Livna and ... Krakova...
  
   1799-1801
• Nikita Petrovich Panin
  Nikita Petrovich Panin
  Count Nikita Petrovich Panin , a Russian diplomat, vice-chancellor, State Chancellor 6 Oct 1799 - 18 Nov 1800 and Foreign Minister of Russia. He was a nephew of Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, son of Petr Ivanovich Panin, son-in-law of Count Vladimir Orlov. Nikita P...
  
   1801

Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire, 1801-1917

• Viktor Kochubey
  Viktor Kochubey
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   1801-02
• Aleksandr Vorontsov 1802-04
• Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
  Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
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   1804-06
• Andrei Budberg
  Andrei Budberg
  Count Andrei Yakovlevich Budberg was a Russian diplomat who served as Foreign Minister in 1806-07.His ancestors moved to Livonia 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
  Rumyantsev
  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...
  
   1808-14
• Karl Nesselrode
  Karl Nesselrode
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   1814-56
• Ioannis Kapodistrias
  Ioannis Kapodistrias
  Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias |Academy of Athens]] Critical Observations about the 6th-Grade History Textbook"): "3.2.7. Σελ. 40: Δεν αναφέρεται ότι ο Καποδίστριας ήταν Κερκυραίος ευγενής." "...δύο ιστορικούς της Aκαδημίας κ.κ...
  
   1816-22 (jointly with Nesselrode)
• Alexander Gorchakov 1856-82
• Nicholas de Giers
  Nicholas de Giers
  Nicholas de 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
  Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky
  Prince Alexey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky was a Russian statesman, probably best remembered for having concluded the Li-Lobanov Treaty with China and for his publication of the Russian Genealogical Book ....
  
   1895-96
• Nikolay Shishkin 1896-97
• Mikhail Muravyov
  Mikhail Nikolayevich 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
  Vladimir Lambsdorff
  Count Vladimir Nikolayevich Lamsdorf was a Russian statesman of Baltic German descent who served as Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire from 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,...
  
   1900-06
• Alexander Izvolski
  Alexander Izvolski
  Count 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...
  
   1906-10
• Sergey Sazonov
  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 Stürmer
  Baron Boris Vladimirovich Stürmer was a Russian statesman. He served as Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Interior Minister of the Russian Empire for several months during 1916.- Biography :...
  
   1916
• Nikolay Pokrovsky 1916-17

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government

Russian Provisional Government

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, 1917

• Pavel Milyukov
  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 Tereshchenko
  Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko was the foreign minister of Russia from 5 May 1917 to 25 October 1917...
  
   May-October, 1917

Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1922-91

• Georgy Chicherin
  Georgy Chicherin
  Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin was a Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government from March 1918 to 1930.-Childhood and early career:...
  
   1922-30
• Maxim Litvinov
  Maxim Litvinov
  Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet diplomat.- Early life and first exile :...
  
   1930-39
• Vyacheslav Molotov
  Vyacheslav Molotov
  Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and 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 the Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev...
  
   1939-1949
• Andrey Vyshinsky
  Andrey Vyshinsky
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   1949-1953
• Vyacheslav Molotov
  Vyacheslav Molotov
  Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and 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 the Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev...
  
   1953-1956
• Dmitri Shepilov
  Dmitri Shepilov
  Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov was a Soviet politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs who joined the abortive plot to oust Nikita Khrushchev from power in 1957.-Childhood:Dmitri Shepilov was born to a worker's family in Askhabad...
  
   June 1956-February 1957
• Andrei Gromyko
  Andrei Gromyko
  Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet . Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1987. In the West he was given the...
  
   14 February 1957- 27 July 1985
• Eduard Shevardnadze
  Eduard Shevardnadze
  Eduard Shevardnadze is a former Soviet, and later, Georgian statesman from the height to the end of the Cold War. He served as President of Georgia from 1995 to 2003, and as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party , from 1972 to 1985. Shevardnadze was responsible for many top decisions on...
  
   28 July 1985- 20 December 1990
• Aleksandr Bessmertnykh
  Aleksandr Bessmertnykh
  Alexander Alexandrovich Bessmertnykh briefly served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs 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 Pankin
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   28 August - November 14 1991
• Eduard Shevardnadze
  Eduard Shevardnadze
  Eduard Shevardnadze is a former Soviet, and later, Georgian statesman from the height to the end of the Cold War. He served as President of Georgia from 1995 to 2003, and as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party , from 1972 to 1985. Shevardnadze was responsible for many top decisions on...
  
   November 19 - December 26 1991

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1992-

• Andrey Kozyrev
  Andrey Kozyrev
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   1991-96
• Yevgeny Primakov
  Yevgeny Primakov
  Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician and diplomat. During his long career, he served as the Russian Foreign Minister, Prime Minister of Russia, Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and chief of intelligence service...
  
   1996-98
• Igor Ivanov
  Igor Ivanov
  Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov is a Russian politician and was Russian Foreign Minister from 1998 to 2004.- Early life :...
  
   1998-2004
• Sergei Lavrov 2004-

See also

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)