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.

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
  

  Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin
  

  Artamon Matveev
• 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

Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin

• 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

Karl Nesselrode

Alexander Gorchakov

• 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 27 April 1856 – 9 April 1882
• Nicholas de Giers 9 April 1882 – 26 January 1895
• Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky 18 March 1895 – 30 August 1896
• Nikolay Shishkin 1 September 1896 – 13 January 1897
• Mikhail Muravyov 13 January 1897 – 21 June 1900
• Vladimir Lambsdorff 22 June 1900 – 11 May 1906
• Alexander Izvolski 11 May 1906 – 11 October 1910
• Sergey Sazonov 11 October 1910 – 20 July 1916
• Boris Stürmer 20 July – 23 November, 1916
• Nikolay Pokrovsky 23 November 1916 – 2 March 1917

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917

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

Foreign Ministers of the Russian SFSR: 1917–23, 44–46, 59–91

• Lev Trotsky 8 November 1917 – 9 April 1918
• Georgy Chicherin 9 April 1918 – 6 July 1923
• Anatoly Lavrentyev 1944–46
• Mikhail Yakovlev 14 April 1959 - 5 September 1960
• Sergey Lapin 5 September 1960 - 20 January 1962
• Mikhail Menshikov 20 January 1962 - 11 September 1968
• Aleksey Rodionov 11 September 1968 - 7 May 1971
• Fodor Titov 7 May 1971 - 28 May 1982
• Vladimir Vinogradov 28 May 1982 - 11 October 1990
• Andrey Kozyrev 11 October 1990 – 26 December 1991

Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1922–91

Main article: Ministry of External Relations of the USSR

• Georgy Chicherin 1922 – 21 July 1930
• Maxim Litvinov 21 July 1930 – 3 May 1939
• Vyacheslav Molotov 3 May 1939 – 4 March 1949
• Andrey Vyshinsky 4 March 1949 – 5 March 1953
• Vyacheslav Molotov 5 March 1953 – 1 June 1956
• Dmitri Shepilov 1 June 1956 – 15 February 1957
• Andrei Gromyko 15 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

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)