List of Russian foreign ministers

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This page lists foreign ministers of Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation:

Contents 1 Heads of Posolsky Prikaz, 1549-1699 2 Chancellors and vice-chancellors of the Russian Empire, 1699-1801 3 Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire, 1801-1917 4 Foreign Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917 5 Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia 6 Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1922-91 7 Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1992- 8 See also

[edit] Heads of Posolsky Prikaz, 1549-1699

• Ivan Viskovatyi 1549-62
• Andrey Vasilyev 1562-1570
• Brothers Vasily and Andrey Shchelkalov 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 1653-67
• Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin 1667-71
• Artamon Matveyev 1671-76
• Larion Ivanov 1676-80
• Vasily Volynsky 1680-82
• Vasily Galitzine 1682-89
• Emelian Ukraintsev 1689-99
• Lev Naryshkin 1697-99

[edit] Chancellors and vice-chancellors of the Russian Empire, 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 1758-63
• Nikita Panin 1763-81
• Ivan Osterman 1781-97
• Aleksandr Bezborodko 1797-99
• Fyodor Rostopchin 1799-1801
• Nikita Petrovich Panin 1801

[edit] Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire, 1801-1917

• Viktor Kochubey 1801-02
• Aleksandr Vorontsov 1802-04
• Adam Jerzy Czartoryski 1804-06
• Andrei Budberg 1806-08
• Nikolay Rumiantsev 1807-14
• Karl Nesselrode 1814-56
• John Capodistria 1816-22 (jointly with Nesselrode)
• Alexander Gorchakov 1856-82
• Nicholas de Giers 1882-95
• Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky 1895-96
• Nikolay Shishkin 1896-97
• Mikhail Muravyov 1897-1900
• Vladimir Lambsdorff 1900-06
• Alexander Izvolski 1906-10
• Sergey Sazonov 1910-16
• Boris Stürmer 1916
• Nikolay Pokrovsky 1916-17

[edit] Foreign Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917

• Pavel Milyukov March-May, 1917
• Mikhail Tereshchenko May-October, 1917

[edit] Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia

• Leon Trotsky November 1917-March 1918
• Georgy Chicherin 1918-22

[edit] Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1922-91

• Georgy Chicherin 1922-30
• Maxim Litvinov 1930-39
• Vyacheslav Molotov 1939-1949
• Andrey Vyshinsky 1949-1953
• Vyacheslav Molotov 1953-1956
• Dmitri Shepilov June 1956-February 1957
• Andrey Gromyko 14 February 1957- 27 July 1985
• Eduard Shevardnadze 28 July 1985-20 December 1991
• Aleksandr Bessmertnykh 15 January - 28 August 1991
• Boris Pankin 28 August - November 14 1991
• Eduard Shevardnadze November 19 - December 26 1991

[edit] Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1992-

• Andrey Kozyrev 1991-96
• Yevgeny Primakov 1996-98
• Igor Ivanov 1998-2004
• Sergei Lavrov 2004-

[edit] See also

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