Foreign Minister of Russia

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

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
• 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 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

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

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 1808–14
• Karl Nesselrode 1814–56
• Ioannis Kapodistrias 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

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917

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

Foreign Ministers of Russia during the civil war

• Lev Trotsky
• Georgy Chicherin

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
• Andrei Gromyko 14 February 1957 – 27 July 1985
• Eduard Shevardnadze 28 July 1985 – 20 December 1990
• Aleksandr Bessmertnykh 15 January – 28 August 1991
• Boris Pankin 28 August – 14 November 1991
• Eduard Shevardnadze November 19 – December 26, 1991

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1991–

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

See also

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• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)