List of Russian Foreign Ministers - Definition and Overview

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

Heads of Posolsky Prikaz, 1549-1699

• Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi 1549-62
• Brothers Vasily and Andrey Shchelkalov 1570-1601
• Ivan Tarasievich Gramotin 1605-06, 1610-12, 1618-26, 1634-35
• Pyotr Alekseyevich Tretyakov 1608-10, 1613-18
• Almaz Ivanov 1635-67
• Afanasy Lavrentievich Ordin-Nashchokin 1667-81
• Artamon Sergeyevich Matveyev 1671-76
• Vasily Vasilievich Galitzine 1682-89
• Emelian Ignatievich Ukraintsev 1689-97
• Lev Kirillovich Naryshkin 1697-99

Chancellors and vice-chancellors of the Russian Empire, 1699-1801

• Fyodor Alekseyevich Golovin 1700-06
• Pyotr Pavlovich Shafirov 1706-08
• Gavriil Ivanovich Golovkin 1706-34
• Andrey Ivanovich Osterman 1734-40
• Aleksey Mikhailovich Tcherkassky 1740-42
• Aleksey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin 1744-58
• Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov 1758-63
• Nikita Ivanovich Panin 1763-81
• Ivan Andreyevich Osterman 1781-97
• Aleksandr Andreyevich Bezborodko 1797-99
• Fyodor Vasilievich Rostopchin 1799-1801
• Petr Alekseyevich Panin 1801

Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire, 1801-1917

• Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey 1801-02
• Aleksandr Romanovich Vorontsov 1802-04
• Adam Jerzy Czartoryski 1804-06
• Andrey Yakovlevich Budberg 1806-08
• Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev 1807-14
• Ioann Antonovich Capodistria 1816-22
• Karl Robert Nesselrode 1822-56
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gorchakov 1856-82
• Nikolay Karlovich Giers 1882-95
• Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky 1895-96
• Nikolay Pavlovich Shishkin 1896-97
• Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov 1897-1900
• Vladimir Nikolayevich Lambsdorff 1900-06
• Aleksandr Petrovich Izvolsky 1906-10
• Sergey Dmitrievich Sazonov 1910-16
• Nikolay Nikolaievich Pokrovsky 1916-17

Foreign Ministers of the Provisional Government, 1917

• Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov 1917
• Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko 1917

Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Russia, 1917-91

• Lev Davidovich Trotsky 1917-18
• Georgiy Vasilievich Chicherin 1918-30
• Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov 1930-39
• Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov 1939-56
• Dmitriy Timofeyevich Shepilov 1956-57
• Andrey Andreyevich Gromyko 1957-85
• Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze 1985-91
• Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bessmertnykh 1991

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1991-2004

• Andrey Vladimirovich Kozyrev 1991-96
• Evgeniy Maksimovich Primakov 1996-98
• Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov 1998-2004
• Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov 2004-