Russian Empire

Grand Moscow to 1721

1721-1857

Grand Arms 1857-1882

Grand Arms 1882-1917

Lesser Arms 1883-1917

Imperial Arms to 1917

Provisional 1917

350 - 530                 Empire of the Huns

860 - 1240                Principality of Kyiev Rus

1138 - 1480               Republic of Novgorod

1157 - 1327               Grand Principality of Vladirmir

1327 - 1533               Grand Principality of Moscow

16 Jan 1547 - 02 Nov 1721 Russian Czardom (Kingdom)

27 Sep 1610 - 1613        Time of troubles, Polish occupation to 1612

02 Nov 1721               Russian Empire

29 Mar 1809 - 06 Dec 1917 In Personal Union with Finland

09 Jun 1815 - 1915        In Personal Union with Poland

15 Mar 1917               Russia (no official style adopted)

14 Sep 1917               Russian Republic

 

 

Hunnic Rulers

350-370 Kama Tarkhan

370-375 Vund

375-378 Balamber

378-390 Alypbi

390-411 Uldin

411-412 Donatus

412-420 Charaton

420-422 Oktar

422-432 Ruga

437-444 Bleda

437-453 Attila "The Hun"

453-455 Ellak

455-457 Tuldila

457-469 Dengizich

469-503 BelkErmak

498-503 Djurash

503-521 Tatra

521-528 Grod

528-530 Mugel

 

Grand Princes of Kievian Rus

860-879 Rurikovich, Rurik I

879-912 Rurikovich, Oleg I

912-945 Rurikovich, Igor I

945-962 Rurikovich, Olga I

962-972 Rurikovich, Sviatoslav Igoroslavich I

972-980 Rurikovich, Yaropolk I Sviatoslavich

980-1015 Rurikovich, Vladimir I Svyatoslavich "the Great"

1015-1019 Rurikovich, Sviatopolk I Vladimirovich

1019-1054 Rurikovich, Yarolsav I Vladimirovich

1054-1073 Rurikovich, Iziaslav I Yarolsavich (1st Time)

1073-1076 Rurikovich, Sviatoslav II Yaroslavich

1076-1078 Rurikovich, Iziaslav I Yarolsavich (2nd Time)

1078-1093 Rurikovich, Vsevolod I Yaroslavich

1093-1113 Rurikovich, Sviatopolk II Iziaslavich

1113-1125 Rurikovich, Vladimir II Vsevoldoslavich Monomakh

1125-1132 Rurikovich, Mstslav I Vladimirovich  "the Great"

1132-1139 Rurikovich, Yaropolk II Vladimirovich

1139-1147 Rurikovich, Vsevolod II Olgovich

1147-1157 Rurikovich, Yuriy I Dolgoruki

1157-1174 Rurikovich, Andriy I Yuriyevich

1174-1176 Rurikovich, Mikhail I Yuriyevich

1176-1212 Rurikovich, Vsevolod I Yuriyevich

1212-1216 Rurikovich, Yuriy II Vsevolodovich (1st Time)

1216-1218 Rurikovich, Konstantin I Vsevolodovich

1218-1238 Rurikovich, Yuriy II Vsevolodovich (2nd Time)

1238-1246 Rurikovich, Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich

1246-1248 Rurikovich, Sviatoslav II Vsevolodovich

1248-1252 Nevsky, Andrey II Yaroslavovich

1252-1263 Nevsky, Aleksandr I Yaroslavovich

1263-1271 Nevsky, Yaroslav III Yaroslavovich

1271-1276 Nevsky, Vasily I Yaroslavovich

Grand Princes of Moskovskoye

1238 - 1246               Rurikovich, Vladimir

       1246 - 15 Jan 1248 Rurikovich, Mikhail

15 Jan 1248 - 1263        Rurikovich, Boris I

       1283 - 04 Mar 1303 Rurikovich, Danilo I Aleksandrovich
04 Mar 1303 - 21 Nov 1325 Rurikovich, Yuriy I Danilovich
21 Nov 1325 - 31 Mar 1340 Rurikovich, Ivan I Danilovich Kalita ............ 1288-1340 "the Moneybag"
31 Mar 1340 - 27 Apr 1353 Rurikovich, Simeon I Ivanovich Gordyi ........... 1316-1353 "the Proud"
27 Apr 1353 - 13 Nov 1359 Rurikovich, Ivan II Ivanovich ................... 1326-1359 "the Fair"
13 Nov 1359 - 19 May 1389 Rurikovich, Dmitri I Ivanovich .................. 1350-1389 "of the Don"
19 May 1389 - 27 Feb 1425 Rurikovich, Vasily II Dmitriyevich .............. 1371-1425

27 Feb 1425 - 27 Mar 1462 Rurikovich, Vasily III Ivanovich ................ 1415-1462 "the Dark"

05 Apr 1462 - 06 Nov 1505 Rurikovich, Ivan III Vasilevich ................. 1440-1505 "the Great"

06 Nov 1505 - 13 Dec 1533 Rurikovich, Vasily IV Ivanovich ................. 1479-1533

13 Dec 1533 - 26 Jan 1547 Riurikovich, Ivan IV Vasilyevich ................ 1530-1584 "the Terrible"

Czars (Kings)

26 Jan 1547 - 28 Mar 1584 Riurikovich, Ivan IV Vasilyevich

28 Mar 1584 - 17 Jan 1598 Riurikovich, Fyodor I Ivanovich ................. 1557-1598

17 Jan      - 03 Mar 1598 Godundov, Irina Fydorovna ....................... 1557-1693

                          (acting Czarina)

03 Mar 1598 - 23 Apr 1605 Godunov, Boris II Fydorovich .................... 1550-1605

23 Apr      - 11 Jun 1605 Godunov, Fyodor II Borisovich ................... 1589-1605

11 Jun 1605 - 27 May 1606 Dmitriy I Fydorovich (False Dmitriy I) .......... 1581-1606

                          (Grigory Bogdanovich Otrepyev)

27 May 1606 - 27 Jul 1610 Shuysky, Vasily V Vasilievich ................... 1552-1610

10 Jul 1607 - 21 Dec 1610 Dmitriy II (False Dmitriy II) ................... 1582-1610

21 Dec 1610 - 04 Nov 1612 Vasa, Vladyslav IV of Poland-Lithuania .......... 1595-1648

28 Mar 1611 - 18 May 1612 Dmitriy III (False Dmitriy III) ................. 15..-1612

                          (Sidorka)

21 Feb 1613 - 14 Jul 1645 Romanov, Mikhail I Fydorovich ................... 1596-1645

14 Jul 1645 - 29 Jan 1676 Romanov, Aleksay I Mikhailovich ................. 1629-1676 "the Quietest"

29 Jan 1676 - 07 May 1682 Romanov, Fyodor III Alekseyevich ................ 1661-1682

07 May 1682 - 27 Aug 1689 Romanov, Sofiya Aleskeyevna Romanova ............ 1657-1704

                          (Czarina-regent)

07 May 1682 - 08 Feb 1696 Romanov, Ivan V Alekseyevich .................... 1666-1696

                          (co-Czar with Pyotr I)

07 May 1682 - 22 Oct 1721 Romanov, Pyotr I Alekseyevich ................... 1672-1725 "the Great"

Emperors

22 Oct 1721 - 08 Feb 1725 Romanov, Pyotr I Alekseyevich

08 Feb 1725 - 18 May 1727 Skavonska, Yekatarina I Alexeyevna .............. 1684-1727

18 May 1727 - 13 Feb 1730 Romanov, Pyotr II Alekseyevich .................. 1715-1730

13 Feb 1730 - 20 Nov 1740 Pribislaw, Anna I Ivanovna ...................... 1693-1740

20 Nov 1740 - 06 Nov 1741 Romanov, Ivan VI Ivanovich ...................... 1740-1764

20 Nov 1740 - 06 Nov 1741 Pribislaw, Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna ....... 1718-1746

                          (Regent for Ivan VI)

06 Dec 1741 - 05 Jan 1762 Romanov, Yelizaveta II Petrovna ................. 1709-1761

05 Jan      - 09 Jul 1762 Holstein-Gottorp, Pyotr III Fyodorovich ......... 1726-1762

09 Jul 1762 - 17 Nov 1796 Anhalt-Zerbst, Yekatarina II Frederika .......... 1729-1796 "the Great"

17 Nov 1796 - 24 Mar 1801 Anhalt-Zerbst, Pavel I  Pyotrevich .............. 1754-1801 "the Mad"

24 Mar 1801 - 01 Dec 1825 Holstein-Gottorp, Aleksandr I Pavlovich ......... 1777-1825 "the Blessed"

                          (Grand Duke of Finland, King of Poland, Czar of Georgia)

01 Dec      - 26 Dec 1825 Holstein-Gottorp, Konstantin Pavlovich .......... 1779-1831

                          (Proclaimed Emperor, did not except)

26 Dec 1825 - 02 Mar 1855 Holstein-Gottorp, Nikolay I Pavlovich ........... 1796-1855 "the Conqueror"

02 Mar 1855 - 13 Mar 1881 Holstein-Gorttop, Aleksandr II Nikolayevich ..... 1818-1881 "the Liberator"

13 Mar 1881 - 01 Nov 1894 Holstein-Gottorp, Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich .. 1845-1894 "the Peace-maker"

01 Nov 1894 - 15 Mar 1917 Holstein-Gottorp, Nikolay II Aleksandrovich ..... 1868-1918 "the Bloody" (aka, "the Martyr")

21 Aug 1915 - 15 Mar 1917 Hesse, Empress Aleksandra Feodorovna

                           von Hessen-Darmstadt (Regent) .................. 1872-1918

15 Mar 1917 (Hours)       Holstein-Gottorp, Aleksey Nikolayevich(Tsarovich) 1904-1918

15 Mar      - 17 Mar 1917 Holstein-Gottorp, Mikhail II Aleksandrovich ..... 1878-1918

                          (Proclaimed Emperor, but declined the throne)

 

 

State Chancellors

01 Dec 1709 - 31 Jan 1734 Count Gavril Ivanovich Golovkin ................. 1660-1734

01 Feb 1734 - 21 Nov 1740 Heinrich Johann Friedrich,

                           Baron von Ostermann ............................ 1686-1747

21 Nov 1740 - 15 Nov 1742 Prince Aleksey Mikhailovich Cherkassy ........... 1680-1742

15 Nov 1742 - 26 Feb 1758 Count Aleksey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin ........ 1693-1766

26 Feb 1758 -    Mar 1765 Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorotsov ............ 1714-1767

   Mar 1765 - 09 Mar 1775 Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Golitsyn .......... 1723-1807

09 Mar      - 13 Apr 1775 Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin .................... 1718-1783

                          (1st Time)

13 Apr 1775 - 02 May 1797 Count Ivan Andreyevich Ostermann ................ 1725-1811

02 May 1797 - 17 Apr 1799 Count Aleksandr Andreyevich Bezborodko .......... 1747-1799

17 Apr      - 06 Oct 1799 Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey ....................... 1768-1834

06 Oct 1799 - 18 Nov 1800 Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin (2nd Time)

18 Nov 1800 - 04 Mar 1801 Stepan Alekseyevich Kolychev .................... 1746-1805

04 Mar 1804 - 20 Sep 1802 Prince Aleksandr Borisovich Kurakin ............. 1752-1818

20 Sep 1802 - 28 Jan 1804 Count Aleksandr Romanovich Vorontsov ............ 1741-1805

Chairpersons in the Committee of Ministers

13 Jan 1810 - 01 Apr 1812 Count Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev .............. 1751-1826

10 Apr 1812 - 28 May 1816 Count Nikolay Ivanovich Saltykov ................ 1736-1816

06 Jun 1816 - 18 Apr 1827 Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin ............... 1753-1827

11 May 1827 - 15 Jun 1834 Count Viktor Pavlovich Kochbubey ................ 1768-1834

20 Jun 1834 - 20 Apr 1838 Count Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltov ........... 1761-1838

21 Apr 1838 - 05 Mar 1847 Prince Ilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov .......... 1777-1847

28 Jan      - 05 Oct 1848 Duke Vasily Vasilyevich Levashov ................ 1783-1848

13 Nov 1848 - 17 Apr 1856 Prince Aleksandr Ivanovich Chernyshov ........... 1785-1857

17 Apr 1856 - 20 Jan 1861 Prince Aleksey Fyodorovich Orlov ................ 1786-1861

20 Jan 1861 - 02 Mar 1864 Count Dimitry Nikolayevich Bludov ............... 1785-1880

Chairmen of the Committee of Ministers

07 Mar 1864 - 04 Mar 1872 Pavel Pavlovich Gagarin ......................... 1789-1872

09 Mar 1872 - 31 Dec 1879 Count Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatyev ............... 1797-1879

01 Jan 1880 - 16 Oct 1881 Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuyev .............. 1815-1890

16 Oct 1881 - 11 Jan 1887 Mikhail Khristoforovich Reytern ................. 1820-1890

13 Jan 1887 - 15 Jun 1895 Nikolay Khristoforovich Bunge ................... 1823-1895

27 Oct 1895 - 11 Jun 1903 Ivan Nikolayevich Durnovo ....................... 1834-1903

11 Jun 1903 - 06 Nov 1905 Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte .................... 1849-1915

Prime Ministers

06 Nov 1905 - 05 May 1906 Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte

05 May      - 21 Jul 1906 Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (1st Time) ........... 1839-1917

21 Jul 1906 - 18 Sep 1911 Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin ...................... 1862-1911

18 Sep 1911 - 12 Feb 1914 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov ................. 1853-1943

12 Feb 1914 - 02 Feb 1916 Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (2nd Time)

02 Feb      - 23 Nov 1916 Boris Vladimirovich Shtyurmer ................... 1848-1917

23 Nov 1916 - 09 Jan 1917 Aleksandr Fyodorovich Trepov .................... 1862-1928

09 Jan      - 12 Mar 1917 Knyaz Nikolay Dimitryevich Golitsyn ............. 1850-1925

Chairmen of the Provisional Government

15 Mar      - 21 Jul 1917 Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov ................. 1861-1925

21 Jul      - 07 Nov 1917 Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky .................. 1881-1970

• Governorates (Russian Empire[European])
• Finland, Poland, White Russia and the Baltic
• Transcaucasian Viceroyalty
• Siberia and the Far East
• Turkestan

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- White Russian Government 1917-1921 -

 

Head of State

   Nov 1917 - 05 Nov 1918 Nikolay Dmitriyevich Avksentyev ................. 1878-1943

07 Nov      - 12 Nov 1918 Vasily Georgiyevich Boldyrev .................... 1875-1932

12 Nov      - 18 Nov 1918 Pyotr Vasilyevich Vologodsky .................... 1863-1928

18 Nov 1918 - 15 Jan 1920 Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kolchak ................... 1874-1920

15 Jan      - 04 Apr 1920 Anton Ivanovich Denikin ......................... 1872-1947

04 Apr 1920 -    Sep 1921 Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Vrangel ................ 1878-1928

 

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

04 Nov 1918 - 22 Nov 1919 Pyotr Vasilyevich Vologodsky .................... s.a

23 Nov 1919 - 15 Jan 1920 ViktorNikolayevich Pepelyayev ................... 1885-1920

19 Aug 1920 -    Sep 1921 Aleksandr Vasilyevich Krivoshein ................ 1857-1921DIV>

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Note:* Nikolay II initially abdicated in favour of his son Aleksey, but in a matter of hours later

changed his mind due to his son’s haemophilia and instead drew up a new manifesto proclaiming

his brother Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich as Emperor without informing him. Grand Duke

Mikhail was proclaimed Mikhail II, but declined the throne until elections could be held.

The legality of Nikolay II abdication is disputed, especially whether the Emperor had the right

to abdicate on behalf of his son, thus neither the Tsarovich nor Grand Duke Mikhail are normally

included as Russian monarchs.

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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

 

       1918 - 1920

 

07 Nov 1917               October Revolution (25 October Julian calendar)

18 Nov 1917               Russian Soviet Republic (no official style attopted)

19 Jul 1918               Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

30 Dec 1922               Accession to the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)

12 Dec 1991               Independent as the Russian Federation

 

Responsible Secretary of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

1917 - 1918               Elena Dmitrievna Stasova (1st Time) ............. 1873-1966

       1918 - 16 Mar 1919 Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov ..................... 1885-1919

16 Mar      -    Dec 1919 Elena Dmitrievna Stasova (2nd Time)

   Dec 1919 -    Mar 1921 Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky ................. 1883-1938

   Mar 1921 - 03 Apr 1922 Vyachelsav Mikhailovich Molotov ................. 1890-1986

 

Chairmen of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee

09 Nov      - 21 Nov 1917 Lev Borisovich Kamenev .......................... 1883-1936 RKP

21 Nov 1917 - 16 Mar 1919 Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov ..................... (s.a)

30 Mar 1919 - 30 Dec 1922 Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin........................ 1875-1946 RKP

 

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

08 Nov 1917 - 30 Dec 1922 Vladimir Ilich Lenin ............................ 1870-1924 RKP

 

RKP=Rossyskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya (bolshevikov) (Russian Communist Party)

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Adopted 01 Dec 1993

19 May 1992 - 1993

Russian Federation

 

Presidents

12 Dec 1991 - 31 Dec 1999 Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ...................... 1931-2007

22 Sep      - 04 Oct 1993 Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rutskoy ................. 1947-

                          (in opposition)

01 Jan 2000 - 07 May 2008 Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin .................... 1952-     UR

                          (1st Time, acting to 07 May 2000)

07 May 2008 - 07 May 2012 Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev .................... 1965-

07 May 2012 -             Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (2nd Time)

 

Prime Ministers

06 Nov 1991 - 15 Jun 1992 Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ...................... s.a

15 Jun      - 14 Dec 1992 Yegor Timurovich Gaidar ......................... 1956-2009

14 Dec 1992 - 23 Mar 1998 Viktor Stepanovich Chernomydrin ................. 1938-2010

23 Mar      - 23 Aug 1998 Sergei Vladilenovich Kirikyenko ................. 1962-

11 Sep 1998 - 12 May 1999 Yevgeny Maksimovich  Primakov ................... 1929-

12 May      - 09 Aug 1999 Sergei Vladimirovich Stepashin .................. 1952-

09 Aug 1999 - 07 May 2000 Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (1st Time) ......... s.a

07 May 2000 - 24 Feb 2004 Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasynanov .................. 1957-

05 Mar 2004 - 14 Sep 2007 Mikhail Yefimovich Fradov ....................... 1950-

14 Sep 2007 - 08 May 2008 Viktor Aleksayevich Zubkov ...................... 1941-     UR

08 May 2008 - 07 May 2012 Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (2nd Time)

08 May 2012 -             Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev .................... s.a       UR

 

 

UR=United Russia (Putin personalist, centerist)

• Republics
• Admin Divisions
• Russian S.F.S.R 1917-1991

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Union of Russia and Belarus

02 Apr 1996              Community of Russia and Belarus formed

22 Dec 1999 -            State Union of Russia and Belarus

 

State Secretary of the Union

26 Jan 2000 -            Pavel Pavlovich Borodin ......................... 1946-    (Russia)

 

 

Contemplated Members

1999 Yugoslavia (Serbia from 2006)

2001 Moldova

2007 Kazakhstan

2007 Kyrgyzstan

 

Note: The planned State Union follows a similar model of the EU, though much looser. As of 2010 developments have stalled and remain dormant.