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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

This is a list of foreign ministers of Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
Sergey Lavrov February 2016.jpg
**Incumbent
Sergey Lavrov**
since February 24, 2004
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
StyleMr. Minister
Member ofGovernment, Security Council
Reports toThe President
ResidenceMinistry of Foreign Affairs Building
SeatMoscow
NominatorThe Prime Minister
AppointerThe President
Term lengthNo fixed term
First holderIvan Viskovatyi
Websitewww.mid.ru [2]

Tsardom of Russia

PortraitNameTerm of officeHead of State
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngIvan ViskovatyiJanuary 2, 1549August 2, 1562[1]Ivan IV
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngAndrey VasilyevSeptember, 1562July 25, 1570
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngAndrey ShchelkalovNovember, 1570June 17, 1594
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngVasily ShchelkalovJune 30, 1594May 1601Feodor I
Boris Godunov
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngAfanasy VlasyevMay 1601May 8, 1605
Feodor II
Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gifIvan GramotinAugust 1605February 14, 1606False Dmitriy I
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngVasily Telepnev1606March 1611Vasili IV
False Dmitry II
Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gifIvan GramotinNovember 20, 1611September 1612
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngFedor Androsov
(Acting)
September 1612June 1613
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngPyotr TretyakovJune 1613May 16, 1618Michael I
Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gifIvan GramotinMay 1618December 21, 1626
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngEfim TelepnevDecember 22, 1626July 30, 1630
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngFedor LikhachovSeptember 21, 1630December 25, 1631
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngIvan GryazevOctober 1, 1632April 17, 1634
Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gifIvan GramotinMay 19, 1634July 19, 1635
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngFedor LikhachovSeptember 21, 1635September 1, 1643
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngGrigory LvovSeptember 1, 1643December 27, 1646
Alexis
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngNazary ChistoyJanuary 6, 1647June 2, 1648
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngMikhail VolosheninovJuly 4, 1648April 1653
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngAlmaz IvanovSeptember 28, 1653March 10, 1667
Ордин-Нащокин.jpgAfanasy Ordin-NashchokinJuly 15, 1667February 21, 1671
Matveyev Artamon portrait.jpgArtamon MatveyevFebruary 22, 1671July 3, 1676
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngLarion IvanovJuly 4, 1676December 21, 1680
Feodor III
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngVasily VolynskyDecember 21, 1680May 6, 1681
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngLarion Ivanov
(Acting)
May 6, 1681May 15, 1682
Sofia Alekseyevna,
Ivan V
and Peter I
Golytsin GIM.jpgVasily GalitzineMay 17, 1682September 6, 1689
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.pngEmelian UkraintsevSeptember 6, 1689April 19, 1699Ivan V
and Peter I
Naryshkin Lev Kirillovich.jpgLev Naryshkin16971699Peter I

Russian Empire

PortraitNameTerm of officeHead of State
Fedor Golovin.PNGFyodor GolovinFebruary 18, 1700August 2, 1706Peter I
Shafirov.jpgPyotr ShafirovSeptember 17061708
Chancelor G.I.Golovkin by I.Nikitin (1720s, Tretyakov gallery).jpgGavriil Golovkin1708January 20, 1734
Catherine I
Peter II
Anna
HeinrichGrafOstermann.jpgAndrey Osterman17341740
Aleksey Mikhailovich Tcherkassky.PNGAleksey TcherkasskyNovember 10, 1740November 4, 1742Ivan VI
Chancellor bestuzhev.jpgAlexey Bestuzhev-RyuminNovember 4, 1742February 15, 1758Elizabeth
RusPortraits v2-205 Le Comte Michel Ilarionowitch Worontzoff.jpgMikhail VorontsovNovember 23, 1758October 27, 1763
Peter III
N.I. Panin by unknown (Vladivostok).jpgNikita PaninOctober 27, 1763April 10, 1781Catherine II
Ivan Alexandrovich Osterman.PNGIvan OstermanApril 10, 1781May 2, 1797
A.A.Bezborodko by Lampi (1794, Hermitage).jpgAleksandr BezborodkoMay 2, 1797April 6, 1799Paul I
Orest Kiprensky 006.jpegFyodor RostopchinApril 6, 1799February 20, 1801
Panin Nikita Petrovich.jpgNikita PaninMarch 23, 1801September 30, 1801Alexander I
Kochubey Viktor Pavlovich.jpgViktor KochubeySeptember 30, 1801September 8, 1802
AlexandrRomanovichVorontsov.jpgAlexander VorontsovSeptember 8, 1802January 16, 1804
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.jpgAdam Jerzy CzartoryskiJanuary 16, 1804Juny 17, 1806
Andrey Yakovlevich von Budberg (Russian portraits, Vol.2, Num.164) - retouched.jpgAndreas Eberhard von BudbergJuny 17, 1806August 30, 1807
Rumyan.jpgNikolay RumiantsevFebruary 12, 1808August 1, 1814
Karl Nesselrode.pngKarl Nesselrode1814April 15, 1856
Nicholas I
Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov.jpgAlexander GorchakovApril 15, 18569 April 1882Alexander II
Nikolai de Giers.jpgNicholas de GiersApril 9, 1882January 26, 1895Alexander III
Lobanov.gifAlexei Lobanov-RostovskyMarch 18, 1895August 30, 1896Nicholas II
Shishkin NP.jpgNikolay ShishkinSeptember 1, 1896January 13, 1897
Muraviov Mikhail (1845-1900).jpgMikhail MuravyovJanuary 13, 1897June 21, 1900
Lambsdorf Vladimir (1844-1907).jpgVladimir LambsdorffJanuary 6, 1901May 11, 1906
Извольский Александр Петрович, 1894.jpgAlexander IzvolskyMay 11, 1906October 11, 1910
Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sasonow.jpgSergey SazonovOctober 11, 1910July 20, 1916
Штюрмер Б. (Новгородская область).jpgBoris StürmerJuly 20, 1916November 23, 1916
Nikolai Pokrovsky.jpgNikolay PokrovskyNovember 23, 1916March 2, 1917

Provisional Government/Russian Republic

MinisterPartyTerm of OfficePrime Minister
Pavel Milyukov 2.jpgPavel MilyukovConstitutional Democratic PartyMarch 2, 1917May 1, 1917George Lvov
Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko.jpgMikhail TereshchenkoIndependentMay 5, 1917October 29, 1917
Alexander Kerensky

Soviet Union

PortraitNameTerm of officeHead of State
57Georgy Chicherin 1920s.jpgGeorgy ChicherinJuly 6, 1923July 21, 1930Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
58Litvinoff Profile.jpgMaxim LitvinovJuly 21, 1930May 3, 1939
59Molotov.jpgVyacheslav MolotovMay 3, 1939March 4, 1949
60RIAN archive 7781 Vyshinsky.jpgAndrey VyshinskyMarch 4, 1949March 5, 1953
61Molotov.jpgVyacheslav MolotovMarch 5, 1953June 1, 1956
Nikita Khrushchev
62Dmitri Shepilov 1955b.jpgDmitri ShepilovJune 1, 1956February 15, 1957
63Andrei Gromyko 1972.jpgAndrei GromykoFebruary 15, 1957July 27, 1985
Leonid Brezhnev
Yuri Andropov
Konstantin Chernenko
64Eduard shevardnadze.jpgEduard ShevardnadzeJuly 28, 1985December 20, 1990Mikhail Gorbachev
65State Emblem of the Soviet Union.svgAleksandr BessmertnykhJanuary 15, 1991August 28, 1991
Boris Pankin.jpgBoris Pankin (Acting)August 28, 1991November 14, 1991
Minister of External Relations of the USSR (1991-1991)
PortraitNameTerm of officeHead of State
1Eduard shevardnadze.jpgEduard ShevardnadzeNovember 19, 1991December 26, 1991

Russian SFSR

MinisterPartyTerm of OfficeHead of State
Leon Trotsky, 1930s.jpgLeon TrotskySocial Democratic Labour Party
(Bolshevik)
November 8, 1917March 13, 1918Lev Kamenev
Georgy Chicherin 1920s.jpgGeorgy ChicherinCommunist PartyApril 9, 1918July 6, 1923
Post abolished (1923–1944)
1953 Anatoly Lavrentiev cropped.jpgAnatoly LavrentievCommunist PartyMarch 8, 1944March 13, 1946Nikolay Shvernik
Post abolished (1946–1959)
Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956-1978).svgMikhail YakovlevCommunist PartyApril 16, 1959August 5, 1960Nikolai Ignatov
Nikolay Organov
Sergey Georgiyevich Lapin.jpgSergey LapinCommunist PartySeptember 5, 1960January 20, 1962
Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956-1978).svgMikhail MenshikovCommunist PartyFebruary 1, 1962September 11, 1968
Nikolai Ignatov
Mikhail Yasnov
Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956-1978).svgAleksei A. RodionovCommunist PartySeptember 11, 1968May 7, 1971
Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svgFyodor TitovCommunist PartyMay 7, 1971May 28, 1982
RIAN archive 62771 Vladimir Vinogradov.jpgVladimir VinogradovCommunist PartyMay 28, 1982June 15, 1990
Vladimir Orlov
Vitaly Vorotnikov
Evstafiev-Andrey Kozyrev.jpgAndrey KozyrevIndependentOctober 11, 1990May 16, 1992Boris Yeltsin

Russian Federation

MinisterPartyTerm of OfficePresident
Evstafiev-Andrey Kozyrev.jpgAndrey KozyrevIndependentMay 16, 1992January 5, 1996Boris Yeltsin
E Primakov 03.jpgYevgeny PrimakovIndependentJanuary 10, 1996September 11, 1998
Igor Ivanov 2014.jpgIgor IvanovIndependentSeptember 30, 1998February 24, 2004
Vladimir Putin
Sergey Lavrov February 2016.jpgSergey LavrovUnited RussiaFebruary 24, 2004Incumbent
Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin

See also

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

  • List of Soviet foreign ministers

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)

References

[1]
Citation Linkprovidenie.narod.ruRussia's foreign policy for 1000
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[2]
Citation Linkwww.mid.ruwww.mid.ru
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