Rulers: Russia
Ministries 1802-1917
Foreign Affairs
Ministers
20 Sep 1802 - 28 Jan 1804 Graf Aleksandr Vorontsov (b. 1741 - d. 1805)
28 Jan 1804 - 29 Jun 1806 Knyaz Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (b. 1770 - d. 1861)
29 Jun 1806 - 11 Sep 1807 Graf Andrey Budberg (b. 1750 - d. 1812)
11 Sep 1807 - 13 Aug 1814 Graf Nikolay Rumyantsev (b. 1754 - d. 1826)
23 Feb 1814 - 21 Aug 1816 Ivan Veydemeyer (acting) (b. 1752 - d. 1820)
22 Aug 1814 - 27 Apr 1856 Graf Karl Nesselrode (b. 1780 - d. 1862)
11 Sep 1815 - 1822 Graf Ivan Kapodistriya (b. 1776 - d. 1831)
(secretary of state)
27 Apr 1856 - 9 Apr 1882 Knyaz Aleksandr Gorchakov (b. 1798 - d. 1883)
9 Apr 1882 - 26 Jan 1895 Nikolay Girs (b. 1820 - d. 1895)
26 Jan 1895 - 10 Mar 1895 Nikolay Shishkin (1st time) (b. 1830 - d. 1902)
(acting)
10 Mar 1895 - 30 Aug 1896 Knyaz Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky (b. 1824 - d. 1896)
31 Aug 1896 - 13 Jan 1897 Nikolay Shishkin (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
13 Jan 1897 - 20 Jun 1900 Graf Mikhail Muravyov (b. 1845 - d. 1900)
21 Jun 1900 - 11 May 1906 Graf Vladimir Lamzdorf (b. 1845 - d. 1907)
(acting to 6 Jan 1901)
11 May 1906 - 27 Sep 1910 Aleksandr Izvolsky (b. 1856 - d. 1919)
27 Sep 1910 - 20 Jul 1916 Sergey Sazonov (b. 1860 - d. 1927)
(acting to 21 Nov 1910)
20 Jul 1916 - 23 Nov 1916 Baron Boris Shtyurmer (b. 1848 - d. 1917)
13 Dec 1916 - 13 Mar 1917 Nikolay Pokrovsky (b. 1865 - d. 1930)
15 Mar 1917 - 15 May 1917 Pavel Milyukov (b. 1859 - d. 1943)
18 May 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Mikhail Tereshchenko (b. 1886 - d. 1956)
War
Ministers
- Land Forces -
20 Sep 1802 - 25 Jan 1808 Sergey Vyazmitinov (b. 1744 - d. 1819)
25 Jan 1808 - 13 Jan 1810 Graf Aleksey Arakcheyev (b. 1769 - d. 1834)
1 Feb 1810 - 5 Sep 1812 Knyaz Mikhail Barklay de Tolli (b. 1761 - d. 1818)
5 Sep 1812 - 24 Dec 1815 Knyaz Aleksey Gorchakov (b. 1769 - d. 1817)
(acting to 11 Sep 1814)
- War -
24 Dec 1815 - 18 May 1819 Pyotr Konovnitsyn (b. 1764 - d. 1822)
18 May 1819 - 26 Mar 1823 Baron Pyotr Meller-Zakomelsky (b. 1755 - d. 1823)
26 Mar 1823 - 7 Sep 1827 Aleksandr Tatishchev (from 1826,
Graf Aleksandr Tatishchev) (b. 1763 - d. 1833)
7 Sep 1827 - 7 Sep 1852 Graf (from 1841 Knyaz) Aleksandr
Chernyshev (b. 1786 - d. 1859)
7 Sep 1852 - 29 Apr 1856 Knyaz Vasily Dolgoruky (b. 1804 - d. 1868)
29 Apr 1856 - 28 May 1861 Nikolay Sukhozanet (b. 1794 - d. 1871)
28 May 1861 - 2 Jun 1881 Dmitry Milyutin (from 1878,
Graf Dmitry Milyutin) (b. 1816 - d. 1912)
3 Jun 1881 - 13 Jan 1898 Pyotr Vannovsky (b. 1822 - d. 1904)
13 Jan 1898 - 20 Feb 1904 Aleksey Kuropatkin (b. 1848 - d. 1925)
20 Feb 1904 - 4 Jul 1905 Viktor Sakharov (b. 1848 - d. 1905)
(acting to 24 Mar 1904)
4 Jul 1905 - 24 Mar 1909 Aleksandr Rediger (b. 1854 - d. 1920)
(acting to 28 Jul 1905)
24 Mar 1909 - 26 Jun 1915 Vladimir Sukhomlinov (b. 1848 - d. 1926)
26 Jun 1915 - 28 Mar 1916 Aleksey Polivanov (b. 1855 - d. 1920)
(acting to 23 Sep 1915)
28 Mar 1916 - 16 Jan 1917 Dmitry Shuvayev (b. 1854 - d. 1937)
16 Jan 1917 - 13 Mar 1917 Mikhail Belyayev (b. 1864 - d. 1918)
15 Mar 1917 - 13 May 1917 Aleksandr Guchkov (b. 1862 - d. 1936)
18 May 1917 - 12 Sep 1917 Aleksandr Kerensky (b. 1881 - d. 1970)
12 Sep 1917 - 2 Nov 1917 Aleksandr Verkhovsky (b. 1886 - d. 1938)
Navy
(until 1815 Sea Forces)
Ministers
20 Sep 1802 - 9 Jan 1803 Nikolay Mordvinov (b. 1754 - d. 1845)
12 Jan 1803 - 10 Dec 1811 Pavel Chichagov (b. 1767 - d. 1849)
(acting to Aug 1807)
29 Aug 1809 - 5 Apr 1828 Ivan Traverse (b. 1754 - d. 1831)
(acting for Chichagov to 10 Dec 1811)
5 Apr 1828 - 17 Feb 1836 Anton Moller (b. 1764 - d. 1848)
17 Feb 1836 - 7 Mar 1855 Knyaz Aleksandr Menshikov (b. 1787 - d. 1869)
30 May 1855 - 8 Aug 1857 Baron Ferdinand Vrangel (b. 1797 - d. 1870)
8 Aug 1857 - 1 Oct 1860 Nikolay Metlin (b. 1804 - d. 1884)
1 Oct 1860 - 15 Jan 1876 Nikolay Krabbe (b. 1814 - d. 1876)
24 Jan 1876 - 5 Jul 1880 Stepan Lesovsky (b. 1817 - d. 1884)
5 Jul 1880 - 23 Jan 1882 Aleksey Peshchurov (b. 1834 - d. 1891)
23 Jan 1882 - 3 Dec 1888 Ivan Shestakov (b. 1820 - d. 1888)
26 Sep 1888 - 25 Jul 1896 Nikolay Chikhachev (b. 1830 - d. 1917)
(acting [for Shestakov to 3 Dec 1888] to 10 Dec 1888)
25 Jul 1896 - 17 Mar 1903 Pavel Tyrtov (b. 1836 - d. 1903)
17 Mar 1903 - 12 Jul 1905 Fyodor Avelan (b. 1839 - d. 1916)
(acting to 23 Mar 1903)
12 Jul 1905 - 24 Jan 1907 Aleksey Birilev (b. 1844 - d. 1915)
24 Jan 1907 - 21 Jan 1909 Ivan Dikov (b. 1833 - d. 1914)
21 Jan 1909 - 31 Mar 1911 Stepan Voyevodsky (b. 1859 - d. 1937)
1 Apr 1911 - 13 Mar 1917 Ivan Grigorovich (b. 1853 - d. 1930)
13 Mar 1917 - 12 Sep 1917 merged with War Ministry
12 Sep 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Dmitry Verderevsky (b. 1873 - d. 1947)
Interior
Ministers
20 Sep 1802 - 6 Dec 1807 Graf Viktor Kochubey (1st time) (b. 1768 - d. 1834)
6 Dec 1807 - 12 Apr 1810 Knyaz Aleksey Kurakin (b. 1759 - d. 1830)
12 Apr 1810 - 5 Aug 1819 Osip Kozodavlev (b. 1754 - d. 1819)
15 Aug 1819 - 16 Nov 1819 Knyaz Aleksandr Golitsyn (acting) (b. 1773 - d. 1844)
16 Nov 1819 - 10 Jul 1823 Graf Viktor Kochubey (2nd time) (s.a.)
10 Jul 1823 - 10 Sep 1823 Baron Baltazar Kampengauzen (b. 1772 - d. 1823)
10 Sep 1823 - 1 May 1828 Vasily Lanskoy (b. 1754 - d. 1831)
1 May 1828 - 1 Dec 1831 Arseny Zakrevsky (b. 1783 - d. 1865)
24 Feb 1832 - 27 Feb 1839 Dmitry Bludov (b. 1785 - d. 1864)
22 Mar 1839 - 4 Oct 1841 Graf Aleksandr Stroganov (acting) (b. 1796 - d. 1891)
5 Oct 1841 - 11 Sep 1852 Lev Perovsky (from 1849, Graf Lev
Perovsky) (b. 1792 - d. 1856)
11 Sep 1852 - 1 Sep 1855 Dmitry Bibikov (b. 1791 - d. 1870)
1 Sep 1855 - 5 May 1861 Sergey Lanskoy (b. 1787 - d. 1862)
5 May 1861 - 21 Mar 1868 Pyotr Valuyev (b. 1815 - d. 1890)
21 Mar 1868 - 9 Dec 1878 Aleksandr Timashev (b. 1818 - d. 1893)
9 Dec 1878 - 18 Aug 1880 Lev Makov (b. 1830 - d. 1883)
18 Aug 1880 - 16 May 1881 Graf Mikhail Loris-Melikov (b. 1825 - d. 1888)
16 May 1881 - 11 Jun 1882 Graf Nikolay Ignatyev (b. 1832 - d. 1908)
11 Jun 1882 - 7 May 1889 Graf Dmitry Tolstoy (b. 1823 - d. 1889)
10 May 1889 - 27 Oct 1895 Ivan Durnovo (b. 1834 - d. 1903)
27 Oct 1895 - 1 Nov 1899 Ivan Goremykin (b. 1839 - d. 1917)
1 Nov 1899 - 15 Apr 1902 Dmitry Sipyagin (b. 1853 - d. 1902)
(acting to 11 Mar 1900)
17 Apr 1902 - 28 Jul 1904 Vyacheslav Pleve (b. 1846 - d. 1904)
8 Sep 1904 - 31 Jan 1905 Knyaz Pyotr Svyatopolk-Mirsky (b. 1857 - d. 1914)
2 Feb 1905 - 4 Nov 1905 Aleksandr Bulygin (b. 1851 - d. 1919)
5 Nov 1905 - 5 May 1906 Pyotr Durnovo (b. 1842 - d. 1915)
9 May 1906 - 18 Sep 1911 Pyotr Stolypin (b. 1862 - d. 1911)
3 Oct 1911 - 29 Dec 1912 Aleksandr Makarov (b. 1857 - d. 1918)
29 Dec 1912 - 18 Jun 1915 Nikolay Maklakov (b. 1871 - d. 1918)
18 Jun 1915 - 9 Oct 1915 Knyaz Nikolay Shcherbatov (b. 1868 - d. 1943)
9 Oct 1915 - 16 Mar 1916 Aleksey Khvostov (b. 1872 - d. 1918)
16 Mar 1916 - 20 Jul 1916 Boris Shtyurmer (b. 1848 - d. 1917)
20 Jul 1916 - 29 Sep 1916 Aleksandr Khvostov (b. 1857 - d. 1922)
29 Sep 1916 - 13 Mar 1917 Aleksandr Protopopov (b. 1866 - d. 1918)
15 Mar 1917 - 20 Jul 1917 Knyaz Georgy Lvov (b. 1861 - d. 1925)
23 Jul 1917 - 6 Aug 1917 Irakly Tsereteli (acting) (b. 1881 - d. 1959)
7 Aug 1917 - 15 Sep 1917 Nikolay Avksentyev (b. 1878 - d. 1943)
8 Oct 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Aleksey Nikitin (b. 1876 - d. 1939)
Police
16 Nov 1819 merged with Ministry of Interior
Ministers
6 Aug 1810 - 9 Apr 1812 Aleksandr Balashev (1st time) (b. 1770 - d. 1837)
9 Apr 1812 - 27 Oct 1819 Sergey Vyazmitinov (from 1818,
Graf Sergey Vyazmitinov) (b. 1744 - d. 1819)
27 Oct 1819 - 16 Nov 1819 Aleksandr Balashev (2nd time) (s.a.)
Finance
Ministers
20 Sep 1802 - 27 Aug 1807 Aleksey Vasilyev (b. 1742 - d. 1807)
7 Sep 1807 - 13 Jan 1810 Fyodor Golubtsov (b. 1759 - d. 1829)
13 Jan 1810 - 4 May 1823 Graf Dmitry Guryev (b. 1758 - d. 1825)
4 May 1823 - 13 May 1844 Graf Yegor Kankrin (b. 1774 - d. 1845)
13 May 1844 - 18 Apr 1852 Graf Fyodor Vronchenko (b. 1779 - d. 1852)
(acting to 1845)
21 Apr 1852 - 4 Apr 1858 Pyotr Brok (acting to 1853) (b. 1805 - d. 1875)
4 Apr 1858 - 4 Feb 1862 Aleksandr Knyazhevich (b. 1792 - d. 1872)
4 Feb 1862 - 19 Jul 1878 Mikhail Reytern (b. 1820 - d. 1890)
19 Jul 1878 - 8 Nov 1880 Samuil Greyg (b. 1827 - d. 1887)
8 Nov 1880 - 18 May 1881 Aleksandr Abaza (b. 1821 - d. 1895)
18 May 1881 - 12 Jan 1887 Nikolay Bunge (b. 1823 - d. 1895)
13 Jan 1887 - 11 Sep 1892 Ivan Vyshnegradsky (b. 1832 - d. 1895)
11 Sep 1892 - 29 Aug 1903 Sergey Vitte (b. 1849 - d. 1915)
29 Aug 1903 - 17 Feb 1904 Eduard Pleske (b. 1852 - d. 1904)
18 Feb 1904 - 6 Nov 1905 Vladimir Kokovtsov (1st time) (b. 1853 - d. 1943)
10 Nov 1905 - 7 May 1906 Ivan Shipov (b. 1865 - d. 1919/20)
9 May 1906 - 12 Feb 1914 Vladimir Kokovtsov (2nd time) (s.a.)
12 Feb 1914 - 13 Mar 1917 Pyotr Bark (b. 1869 - d. 1937)
15 Mar 1917 - 18 May 1917 Mikhail Tereshchenko (b. 1886 - d. 1956)
18 May 1917 - 15 Jul 1917 Andrey Shingarev (b. 1869 - d. 1918)
24 Jul 1917 - 6 Aug 1917 Aleksandr Khrushchov (acting) (b. 1872 - d. 1932)
7 Aug 1917 - 13 Sep 1917 Nikolay Nekrasov (b. 1879 - d. 1940)
15 Sep 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Mikhail Bernatsky (b. 1876 - d. 1943)
Justice
Ministers
20 Sep 1802 - 19 Oct 1803 Gavrila Derzhavin (b. 1743 - d. 1816)
20 Oct 1803 - 13 Jan 1810 Pyotr Lopukhin (b. 1753 - d. 1827)
13 Jan 1810 - 11 Sep 1814 Ivan Dmitriyev (b. 1760 - d. 1837)
11 Sep 1814 - 6 Sep 1817 Dmitry Troshchinsky (b. 1749 - d. 1829)
6 Sep 1817 - 30 Oct 1827 Knyaz Dmitry Lobanov-Rostovsky (b. 1758 - d. 1838)
30 Oct 1827 - 2 Oct 1829 Knyaz Aleksey Dolgoruky (b. 1767 - d. 1834)
2 Oct 1829 - 26 Feb 1839 Dmitry Dashkov (b. 1789 - d. 1839)
(acting to 14 Feb 1832)
27 Feb 1839 - 12 Jan 1840 Dmitry Bludov (acting) (b. 1785 - d. 1864)
12 Jan 1840 - 2 Nov 1862 Graf Viktor Panin (b. 1801 - d. 1874)
(acting to 28 Apr 1841)
2 Nov 1862 - 30 Apr 1867 Dmitry Zamyatnin (b. 1801 - d. 1881)
30 Apr 1867 - 27 Oct 1867 Knyaz Sergey Urusov (b. 1816 - d. 1883)
27 Oct 1867 - 11 Jun 1878 Graf Konstantin Palen (b. 1830 - d. 1912)
11 Jun 1878 - 18 Nov 1885 Dmitry Nabokov (b. 1826 - d. 1904)
18 Nov 1885 - 13 Jan 1894 Nikolay Manasein (acting to 1887) (b. 1834 - d. 1895)
13 Jan 1894 - 27 Jan 1905 Nikolay Muravyov (b. 1850 - d. 1908)
3 Feb 1905 - 29 Dec 1905 Sergey Manukhin (b. 1856 - d. 1922)
(acting to 30 Apr 1905)
29 Dec 1905 - 7 May 1906 Mikhail Akimov (b. 1847 - d. 1914)
7 May 1906 - 19 Jul 1915 Ivan Shcheglovitov (b. 1861 - d. 1918)
19 Jul 1915 - 20 Jul 1916 Aleksandr Khvostov (b. 1857 - d. 1922)
20 Jul 1916 - 2 Jan 1917 Aleksandr Makarov (b. 1857 - d. 1918)
2 Jan 1917 - 13 Mar 1917 Nikolay Dobrovolsky (b. 1854 - d. 1918)
15 Mar 1917 - 18 May 1917 Aleksandr Kerensky (b. 1881 - d. 1970)
18 May 1917 - 19 Jul 1917 Pavel Pereverzev (b. 1871 - d. 1944)
24 Jul 1917 - 6 Aug 1917 Ivan Yefremov (b. 1866 - d. 1945)
6 Aug 1917 - 15 Sep 1917 Aleksandr Zarudny (b. 1863 - d. 1934)
16 Sep 1917 - 8 Oct 1917 Aleksandr Demyanov (acting) (b. 1865 - d. 1925)
8 Oct 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Pavel Malyantovich (b. 1869 - d. 1940)
Education
Ministers
20 Sep 1802 - 23 Apr 1810 Graf Pyotr Zavadovsky (b. 1739 - d. 1812)
23 Apr 1810 - 22 Aug 1816 Graf Aleksey Razumovsky (b. 1748 - d. 1822)
22 Aug 1816 - 27 May 1824 Knyaz Aleksandr Golitsyn (b. 1773 - d. 1844)
(from 1817 education and ecclesiastical affairs)
27 May 1824 - 7 May 1828 Aleksandr Shishkov (b. 1754 - d. 1841)
7 May 1828 - 30 Mar 1833 Knyaz Karl Liven (b. 1767 - d. 1845)
2 Apr 1833 - 1 Nov 1849 Graf Sergey Uvarov (b. 1786 - d. 1855)
1 Nov 1849 - 19 Apr 1853 Knyaz Platon Shirinsky-Shikhmatov (b. 1790 - d. 1853)
19 Apr 1853 - 4 Apr 1858 Avraam Norov (b. 1795 - d. 1869)
4 Apr 1858 - 10 Jul 1861 Yevgraf Kovalevsky (b. 1790 - d. 1867)
10 Jul 1861 - 6 Jan 1862 Graf Yevfimy Putyatin (b. 1804 - d. 1883)
6 Jan 1862 - 26 Apr 1866 Aleksandr Golovnin (b. 1821 - d. 1886)
26 Apr 1866 - 6 May 1880 Graf Dmitry Tolstoy (b. 1823 - d. 1889)
6 May 1880 - 5 Apr 1881 Andrey Saburov (b. 1837 - d. 1916)
5 Apr 1881 - 28 Mar 1882 Baron Aleksandr Nikolay (b. 1821 - d. 1899)
28 Mar 1882 - 10 Jan 1898 Ivan Delyanov (b. 1818 - d. 1898)
16 Jan 1898 - 24 Feb 1898 Nikolay Anichkov (acting) (b. 1844 - d. 1916)
24 Feb 1898 - 15 Mar 1901 Nikolay Bogolepov (b. 1846 - d. 1901)
6 Apr 1901 - 24 Apr 1902 Pyotr Vannovsky (b. 1822 - d. 1904)
24 Apr 1902 - 5 Feb 1904 Grigory Zenger (b. 1853 - d. 1919)
23 Apr 1904 - 31 Oct 1905 Vladimir Glazov (b. 1848 - d. 1920?)
(acting to 14 Aug 1904)
13 Nov 1905 - 7 May 1906 Graf Ivan Tolstoy (b. 1858 - d. 1916)
7 May 1906 - 14 Jan 1908 Pyotr Kaufman (b. 1857 - d. 1926)
14 Jan 1908 - 8 Oct 1910 Aleksandr Shvarts (b. 1848 - d. 1915)
8 Oct 1910 - 9 Dec 1914 Lev Kasso (acting to 15 Feb 1911) (b. 1865 - d. 1914)
9 Dec 1914 - 22 Jan 1915 Mikhail Taube (acting) (b. 1869 - d. 1961)
22 Jan 1915 - 9 Jan 1917 Graf Pavel Ignatyev (b. 1870 - d. 1945)
9 Jan 1917 - 13 Mar 1917 Nikolay Kulchitsky (b. 1856 - d. 1925)
15 Mar 1917 - 15 Jul 1917 Aleksandr Manuilov (b. 1861 - d. 1929)
7 Aug 1917 - 13 Sep 1917 Sergey Oldenburg (b. 1863 - d. 1934)
17 Sep 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Sergey Salazkin (b. 1862 - d. 1932)
(acting to 21 Sep 1917)
Commerce and Industry
Ministers
- Commerce -
20 Sep 1802 - 6 Aug 1810 Graf Nikolay Rumyantsev (b. 1754 - d. 1826)
- Commerce and Industry -
10 Nov 1905 - 3 Mar 1906 Vasily Timiryazev (1st time) (b. 1849 - d. 1919)
3 Mar 1906 - 17 May 1906 Mikhail Fyodorov (acting) (b. 1858 - d. 1949)
18 May 1906 - 8 Aug 1906 Aleksandr Shtof (acting) (b. 1844 - d. 19...)
9 Aug 1906 - 19 Dec 1907 Dmitry Filosofov (b. 1861 - d. 1907)
19 Dec 1907 - 5 Feb 1908 Mikhail Ostrogradsky (acting) (b. 1857 - d. 1923)
5 Feb 1908 - 26 Jan 1909 Ivan Shipov (b. 1865 - d. 1919/20)
27 Jan 1909 - 18 Nov 1909 Vasily Timiryazev (2nd time) (s.a.)
18 Nov 1909 - 2 Mar 1915 Sergey Timashev (b. 1858 - d. 1920)
3 Mar 1915 - 13 Mar 1917 Knyaz Vsevolod Shakhovskoy (b. 1874 - d. 1954)
(acting to 19 May 1915)
15 Mar 1917 - 9 Jun 1917 Aleksandr Konovalov (1st time) (b. 1875 - d. 1949)
9 Jun 1917 - 17 Jul 1917 Vasily Stepanov (acting) (b. 1872 - d. 1920)
6 Aug 1917 - 8 Oct 1917 Sergey Prokopovich (b. 1871 - d. 1955)
8 Oct 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Aleksandr Konovalov (2nd time) (s.a.)
Communications
1809 Administration of Water and Land Communications
1811 Chief Administration of Communications
1832 Chief Administration of Communications and Public Buildings
1864 Chief Administration of Communications
5 Jul 1865 Ministry of Communications
Heads (from 5 Jul 1865, ministers)
2 Dec 1809 - 27 Dec 1812 Prints Georgy Oldenburgsky (b. 1784 - d. 1812)
27 Dec 1812 - 12 Dec 1818 Frants Devollan (b. 1752 - d. 1818)
13 Apr 1819 - 14 Aug 1822 Avgustin Betankur (b. 1758 - d. 1824)
2 Oct 1822 - 4 Jul 1833 Gertsog Aleksandr Vyurtembergsky (b. 1771 - d. 1833)
13 Oct 1833 - 5 May 1842 Graf Karl Tol (b. 1777 - d. 1842)
23 Aug 1842 - 27 Oct 1855 Graf Pyotr Kleynmikhel (b. 1793 - d. 1869)
27 Oct 1855 - 23 Oct 1862 Konstantin Chevkin (b. 1803 - d. 1875)
23 Oct 1862 - 2 May 1869 Pavel Melnikov (b. 1804 - d. 1880)
2 May 1869 - 14 Sep 1871 Graf Vladimir Bobrinsky (b. 1824 - d. 1898)
14 Sep 1871 - 22 Jul 1874 Graf Aleksey Bobrinsky (b. 1826 - d. 1894)
(acting to Apr 1872)
22 Jul 1874 - 19 Nov 1888 Konstantin Posyet (b. 1820 - d. 1899)
19 Nov 1888 - 10 Apr 1889 German Pauker (b. 1822 - d. 1889)
11 Apr 1889 - 29 Jan 1892 Adolf Gyubbenet (b. 1830 - d. 1901)
27 Feb 1892 - 11 Sep 1892 Sergey Vitte (b. 1849 - d. 1915)
11 Sep 1892 - 28 Dec 1894 Apollon Krivoshein (b. 1833 - d. 1902)
16 Jan 1895 - 7 Nov 1905 Knyaz Mikhail Khilkov (b. 1834 - d. 1909)
10 Nov 1905 - 7 May 1906 Klavdy Nemeshayev (b. 1849 - d. 1927)
8 May 1906 - 11 Feb 1909 Nikolay Shaffgauzen-Shonberg-Ek-
Shaufus (b. 1846 - d. 1911)
11 Feb 1909 - 9 Nov 1915 Sergey Rukhlov (b. 1852 - d. 1918)
12 Nov 1915 - 9 Jan 1917 Aleksandr Trepov (b. 1862 - d. 1928)
10 Jan 1917 - 13 Mar 1917 Eduard Kriger-Voynovsky (b. 1864 - d. 1933)
15 Mar 1917 - 17 Jul 1917 Nikolay Nekrasov (b. 1879 - d. 1940)
24 Jul 1917 - 6 Aug 1917 Georgy Takhtamyshev (b. 1874 - d. 1930)
7 Aug 1917 - 9 Sep 1917 Pyotr Yurenev (b. 1874 - d. 1945)
13 Sep 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Aleksandr Liverovsky (b. 1867 - d. 1951)
(acting to 8 Oct 1917)
Agriculture
8 Jan 1838 Ministry of State Properties
2 Apr 1894 Ministry of Agriculture and State Properties
19 Jun 1905 Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture
9 Oct 1915 Ministry of Agriculture
Ministers (19 Jun 1905 - 9 Oct 1915, heads)
8 Jan 1838 - 23 Jul 1856 Graf Pavel Kiselyov (b. 1788 - d. 1872)
11 Sep 1856 - 29 Apr 1857 Vasily Sheremetev (b. 1795 - d. 1862)
29 Apr 1857 - 13 Jan 1862 Mikhail Muravyov (b. 1796 - d. 1866)
13 Jan 1862 - 28 Apr 1872 Aleksandr Zelenoy (b. 1819 - d. 1880)
(acting to 29 Apr 1862)
28 Apr 1872 - 6 Jan 1880 Graf Pyotr Valuyev (b. 1815 - d. 1890)
6 Jan 1880 - 6 Apr 1881 Knyaz Andrey Liven (b. 1839 - d. 1913)
6 Apr 1881 - 16 May 1881 Graf Nikolay Ignatyev (b. 1832 - d. 1908)
16 May 1881 - 13 Jan 1893 Mikhail Ostrovsky (b. 1827 - d. 1901)
13 Jan 1893 - 9 Apr 1893 Vladimir Veshnyakov (acting) (b. 1830 - d. 1906)
9 Apr 1893 - 19 May 1905 Aleksey Yermolov (b. 1847 - d. 1917)
19 May 1905 - 8 Nov 1905 Pyotr Shvanebakh (b. 1848 - d. 1908)
(acting to 19 Jun 1905)
10 Nov 1905 - 17 Feb 1906 Nikolay Kutler (b. 1859 - d. 1924)
12 Mar 1906 - 7 May 1906 Aleksandr Nikolsky (acting) (b. 1851 - d. c.1920)
7 May 1906 - 21 Jul 1906 Aleksandr Stishinsky (b. 1851 - d. 1922)
9 Aug 1906 - 3 Jun 1908 Knyaz Boris Vasilchikov (b. 1860 - d. 1931)
3 Jun 1908 - 8 Nov 1915 Aleksandr Krivoshein (b. 1857 - d. 1921)
23 Nov 1915 - 3 Aug 1916 Aleksandr Naumov (b. 1868 - d. 1950)
3 Aug 1916 - 27 Nov 1916 Graf Aleksey Bobrinsky (b. 1852 - d. 1927)
27 Nov 1916 - 13 Mar 1917 Aleksandr Rittikh (b. 1868 - d. 1930)
(acting to 25 Jan 1917)
15 Mar 1917 - 18 May 1917 Andrey Shingarev (b. 1869 - d. 1918)
18 May 1917 - 10 Sep 1917 Viktor Chernov (b. 1873 - d. 1952)
10 Sep 1917 - 16 Oct 1917 Panteleimon Vikhlyayev (acting) (b. 1869 - d. 1928)
16 Oct 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Semyon Maslov (b. 1873 - d. 1938)
Imperial Court and Imperial Lands
Ministers
3 Sep 1826 - 8 Sep 1852 Knyaz Pyotr Volkonsky (b. 1776 - d. 1852)
11 Sep 1852 - 22 Nov 1856 Graf Lev Perovsky (b. 1792 - d. 1856)
(minister of imperial lands)
11 Sep 1852 - 29 Apr 1870 Graf Vladimir Adlerberg (b. 1791 - d. 1884)
(to 22 Nov 1856 minister of the imperial court only)
29 Apr 1870 - 29 Aug 1881 Graf Aleksandr Adlerberg (b. 1818 - d. 1888)
29 Aug 1881 - 18 May 1897 Graf Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov (b. 1837 - d. 1916)
18 May 1897 - 13 Mar 1917 Baron (from 1913 Graf) Vladimir
Frederiks (b. 1838 - d. 1927)
Posts and Telegraphs
Ministers
7 Jul 1865 - 3 Oct 1867 Graf Ivan Tolstoy (b. 1806 - d. 1867)
26 Dec 1867 - 21 Mar 1868 Aleksandr Timashev (b. 1818 - d. 1893)
21 Mar 1868 - 18 Aug 1880 abolished
18 Aug 1880 - 28 Mar 1881 Lev Makov (b. 1830 - d. 1883)
28 Mar 1881 - 18 May 1917 abolished
18 May 1917 - 6 Aug 1917 Irakly Tsereteli (b. 1881 - d. 1959)
7 Aug 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Aleksey Nikitin (b. 1876 - d. 1939)
Labour
Ministers
18 May 1917 - 14 Sep 1917 Matvey Skobelev (b. 1885 - d. 1938)
8 Oct 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Kuzma Gvozdev (b. 1882 - d. 1956)
Food
Ministers
18 May 1917 - 13 Sep 1917 Aleksey Peshekhonov (b. 1867 - d. 1933)
8 Oct 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Sergey Prokopovich (b. 1871 - d. 1955)
State Protection
Ministers
18 May 1917 - 15 Jul 1917 Knyaz Dmitry Shakhovskoy (b. 1861 - d. 1939)
23 Jul 1917 - 6 Aug 1917 Aleksandr Baryshnikov (acting) (b. 1877 - d. 1924)
7 Aug 1917 - 7 Oct 1917 Ivan Yefremov (b. 1866 - d. 1945)
8 Oct 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Nikolay Kishkin (b. 1864 - d. 1930)
Religion
Minister
18 Aug 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Anton Kartashev (b. 1875 - d. 1960)
Holy Synod
Chief procurators
21 Jun 1799 - 12 Jan 1803 Graf Dmitry Khvostov (b. 1757 - d. 1835)
12 Jan 1803 - 19 Oct 1803 Aleksandr Yakovlev (b. 1762 - d. 1825)
2 Nov 1803 - 5 Nov 1817 Knyaz Aleksandr Golitsyn (b. 1773 - d. 1844)
6 Dec 1817 - 14 Apr 1833 Knyaz Pyotr Meshchersky (b. 1778 - d. 1857)
14 Apr 1833 - 7 Jul 1836 Stepan Nechayev (b. 1792 - d. 1860)
7 Jul 1836 - 28 Jan 1855 Graf Nikolay Protasov (b. 1799 - d. 1855)
3 Feb 1855 - 2 Oct 1856 Aleksandr Karasevsky (acting) (b. 1796 - d. 1857)
22 Oct 1856 - 12 Mar 1862 Graf Aleksandr Tolstoy (b. 1801 - d. 1873)
12 Mar 1862 - 15 Jun 1865 Aleksey Akhmatov (b. 1817 - d. 1870)
15 Jun 1865 - 6 May 1880 Graf Dmitry Tolstoy (b. 1823 - d. 1889)
6 May 1880 - 1 Nov 1905 Konstantin Pobedonostsev (b. 1827 - d. 1907)
2 Nov 1905 - 7 May 1906 Knyaz Aleksey Obolensky (b. 1855 - d. 1933)
9 May 1906 - 22 Jul 1906 Knyaz Aleksey Shirinsky-Shikhmatov (b. 1862 - d. 1930)
9 Aug 1906 - 18 Feb 1909 Pyotr Izvolsky (b. 1863 - d. 1928)
18 Feb 1909 - 15 May 1911 Sergey Lukyanov (b. 1855 - d. 1935)
15 May 1911 - 18 Jul 1915 Vladimir Sabler (b. 1845 - d. 1929)
18 Jul 1915 - 9 Oct 1915 Aleksandr Samarin (b. 1868 - d. 1932)
13 Oct 1915 - 20 Aug 1916 Aleksandr Volzhin (b. 1860 - d. 1933)
12 Sep 1916 - 13 Mar 1917 Nikolay Rayev (b. 1855 - d. 1919)
15 Mar 1917 - 3 Aug 1917 Vladimir Lvov (b. 1872 - d. 1930)
6 Aug 1917 - 18 Aug 1917 Anton Kartashev (s.a.)
State Control
(until 1836 Chief Administration for Audit of State Accounts)
State comptrollers
9 Feb 1811 - 23 Sep 1823 Baron Baltazar Kampengauzen (b. 1772 - d. 1823)
15 Mar 1827 - 5 Mar 1854 Aleksey Khitrovo (b. 1776 - d. 1854)
25 Mar 1854 - 18 Apr 1855 Aleksandr Kushelev-Bezborodko (b. 1800 - d. 1855)
29 Apr 1855 - 18 Dec 1862 Nikolay Annenkov (b. 1799 - d. 1865)
13 Jan 1863 - 25 Feb 1871 Valerian Tatarinov (b. 1816 - d. 1871)
(acting to 1 May 1864)
1 Mar 1871 - 13 Jan 1874 Aleksandr Abaza (b. 1821 - d. 1895)
13 Jan 1874 - 19 Jul 1878 Samuil Greyg (b. 1827 - d. 1887)
19 Jul 1878 - 23 Jul 1889 Dmitry Solsky (b. 1833 - d. 1910)
7 Aug 1889 - 12 Dec 1899 Terty Filippov (b. 1826 - d. 1899)
17 Dec 1899 - 8 Nov 1905 Pavel Lobko (acting to 1900) (b. 1838 - d. 1905)
10 Nov 1905 - 7 May 1906 Dmitry Filosofov (b. 1861 - d. 1907)
7 May 1906 - 26 Jun 1907 Pyotr Shvanebakh (b. 1848 - d. 1908)
25 Sep 1907 - 7 Feb 1916 Pyotr Kharitonov (b. 1852 - d. 1916)
7 Feb 1916 - 13 Dec 1916 Nikolay Pokrovsky (b. 1865 - d. 1930)
13 Dec 1916 - 13 Mar 1917 Sergey Feodosyev (b. 1880 - d. 1937)
15 Mar 1917 - 6 Aug 1917 Ivan Godnev (b. 1854 - d. 1919)
6 Aug 1917 - 8 Sep 1917 Fyodor Kokoshkin (b. 1871 - d. 1918)
8 Oct 1917 - 7 Nov 1917 Sergey Smirnov (b. 1883 - d. 1951)
Chief Administration of State Horse Breeding
Heads
13 Jun 1881 - 18 May 1897 Graf Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov (b. 1837 - d. 1916)
6 Jun 1897 - 26 Nov 1905 Veliky Knyaz Dmitry (b. 1860 - d. 1919)
5 Dec 1905 - 11 Dec 1912 Aleksandr Zdanovich (b. 1849 - d. 1936)
14 Jan 1913 - 18 Jun 1915 Knyaz Nikolay Shcherbatov (b. 1868 - d. 1943)
10 Aug 1915 - 13 Mar 1917 Pavel Stakhovich (b. 1865 - d. 1930)
Chief Administration of Merchant Shipping and Ports
Head
20 Nov 1902 - 2 Dec 1905 Veliky Knyaz Aleksandr (b. 1866 - d. 1933)
Chief Administration of Health
Head
14 Sep 1916 - 13 Mar 1917 Georgy Reyn (b. 1854 - d. 1942)
State Chancellery
Secretaries of state
13 Jan 1810 - 29 Mar 1812 Mikhail Speransky (b. 1772 - d. 1839)
21 Apr 1812 - 11 Sep 1814 Aleksandr Shishkov (b. 1754 - d. 1841)
11 Sep 1814 - 11 May 1827 Aleksey Olenin (b. 1763 - d. 1843)
11 May 1827 - 18 Dec 1834 Vasily Marchenko (b. 1783 - d. 1840)
18 Dec 1834 - 23 Apr 1843 Baron Modest Korf (b. 1800 - d. 1876)
23 Apr 1843 - 13 Jan 1853 Nikolay Bakhtin (b. 1796 - d. 1869)
13 Jan 1853 - 13 Jan 1865 Vladimir Butkov (b. 1813 - d. 1881)
13 Jan 1865 - 28 Apr 1867 Knyaz Sergey Urusov (b. 1816 - d. 1883)
28 Apr 1867 - 19 Jul 1878 Dmitry Solsky (b. 1833 - d. 1910)
19 Jul 1878 - 13 Jan 1883 Yegor Peretts (b. 1833 - d. 1899)
13 Jan 1883 - 13 Jul 1892 Aleksandr Polovtsov (b. 1832 - d. 1909)
3 Aug 1892 - 13 Jan 1894 Nikolay Muravyov (b. 1850 - d. 1908)
13 Jan 1894 - 17 Apr 1902 Vyacheslav Pleve (b. 1846 - d. 1904)
27 Apr 1902 - 18 Feb 1904 Vladimir Kokovtsov (b. 1853 - d. 1943)
21 Feb 1904 - 14 Jan 1909 Baron Yuly Ikskul fon Gildenband (b. 1852/53 - d. 1918)
14 Jan 1909 - 2 Nov 1911 Aleksandr Makarov (b. 1857 - d. 1918)
2 Nov 1911 - 16 Apr 1917 Sergey Kryzhanovsky (b. 1862 - d. 1935)
Imperial State Council
(from 1906 upper chamber of parliament)
Chairmen (1812-65 also of the Committee of Ministers)
13 Jan 1810 - 1 Apr 1812 Graf Nikolay Rumyantsev (b. 1754 - d. 1826)
10 Apr 1812 - 28 May 1816 Graf (from 1814 Knyaz) Nikolay
Saltykov (b. 1736 - d. 1816)
6 Jun 1816 - 18 Apr 1827 Knyaz Pyotr Lopukhin (b. 1753 - d. 1827)
11 May 1827 - 15 Jun 1834 Graf (from 1831 Knyaz) Viktor
Kochubey (b. 1768 - d. 1834)
20 Jul 1834 - 20 Apr 1838 Graf Nikolay Novosiltsev (b. 1761 - d. 1838)
21 Apr 1838 - 5 May 1847 Graf (from 1839 Knyaz) Illarion
Vasilchikov (b. 1776? - d. 1847)
12 Jan 1848 - 5 Oct 1848 Graf Vasily Levashov (b. 1783 - d. 1848)
13 Nov 1848 - 17 Apr 1856 Knyaz Aleksandr Chernyshev (b. 1786 - d. 1859)
17 Apr 1856 - 20 Jan 1861 Knyaz Aleksey Orlov (b. 1786 - d. 1861)
20 Jan 1861 - 2 Mar 1864 Graf Dmitry Bludov (b. 1785 - d. 1864)
7 Mar 1864 - 13 Jan 1865 Knyaz Pavel Gagarin (b. 1789 - d. 1872)
13 Jan 1865 - 25 Jul 1881 Veliky Knyaz Konstantin (b. 1827 - d. 1892)
26 Jul 1881 - 6 Sep 1905 Veliky Knyaz Mikhail (b. 1832 - d. 1909)
6 Sep 1905 - 22 May 1906 Dmitry Solsky (b. 1833 - d. 1910)
2 Jun 1906 - 13 Apr 1907 Eduard Frish (b. 1833 - d. 1907)
23 Apr 1907 - 22 Aug 1914 Mikhail Akimov (b. 1847 - d. 1914)
24 Aug 1914 - 28 Jul 1915 Ivan Golubev (acting) (b. 1842 - d. 1918)
28 Jul 1915 - 14 Jan 1917 Anatoly Kulomzin (b. 1838 - d. 1923)
14 Jan 1917 - 13 Mar 1917 Ivan Shcheglovitov (b. 1861 - d. 1918)
State Duma
Chairmen
10 May 1906 - 21 Jul 1906 Sergey Muromtsev (b. 1850 - d. 1910)
5 Mar 1907 - 16 Jun 1907 Fyodor Golovin (b. 1868 - d. 1937)
14 Nov 1907 - 17 Mar 1910 Nikolay Khomyakov (b. 1850 - d. 1925)
21 Mar 1910 - 17 Mar 1911 Aleksandr Guchkov (b. 1862 - d. 1936)
4 Apr 1911 - 19 Oct 1917 Mikhail Rodzyanko (b. 1859 - d. 1924)