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This page lists foreign ministers of Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation:
==Heads of Posolsky Prikaz, 1549-1699==

★ Ivan Viskovatyi 1549-70

★ Brothers Vasily and Andrey Shchelkalov 1570-1601

★ Ivan Gramotin 1605-06, 1610-12, 1618-26, 1634-35

★ Pyotr Tretyakov 1608-10, 1613-18

★ Almaz Ivanov 1635-67

★ Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin 1667-81

★ Artamon Matveyev 1671-76

★ Vasily Galitzine 1682-89

★ Emelian Ukraintsev 1689-97

★ 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

Contents

Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire, 1801-1917

Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia

Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1922-91

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1991-

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 1807-14

★ Karl Nesselrode 1814-56

★ John Capodistria 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 Soviet Russia

★ Leon Trotsky November 1917-March 1918

★ Georgy Chicherin 1918-22

Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1922-91

★ Georgy Chicherin 1922-30

★ Maxim Litvinov 1930-39

★ Vyacheslav Molotov 1939-1956

★ Dmitri Shepilov June 1956-February 1957

★ Andrey Gromyko 1957-85

★ Eduard Shevardnadze 1985-91

★ Aleksandr Bessmertnykh 1991

★ Boris Pankin 1991

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1991-

★ Andrey Kozyrev 1991-96

★ Yevgeny Primakov 1996-98

★ Igor Ivanov 1998-2004

★ Sergei Lavrov 2004-

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