Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
	Incumbent; Sergey Lavrov; since February 24, 2004
	Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style	Mr. Minister
Member of	Government, Security Council
Reports to	The President
Residence	Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building
Seat	Moscow
Nominator	The Prime Minister
Appointer	The President
Term length	No fixed term
First holder	Ivan Viskovatyi
Website	www.mid.ru

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

Tsardom of Russia

Name	Term of office		Head of State
Ivan Viskovatyi	January 2, 1549	August 2, 1562[1]	Ivan IV
Andrey Vasilyev	September, 1562	July 25, 1570
Andrey Shchelkalov	November, 1570	June 17, 1594
Vasily Shchelkalov	June 30, 1594	May 1601	Feodor I
Vasily Shchelkalov	June 30, 1594	May 1601	Boris Godunov
Afanasy Vlasyev	May 1601	May 8, 1605	Boris Godunov
Afanasy Vlasyev	May 1601	May 8, 1605	Feodor II
Ivan Gramotin	August 1605	February 14, 1606	False Dmitriy I
Vasily Telepnev	1606	March 1611	Vasili IV
Vasily Telepnev	1606	March 1611	False Dmitry II
Ivan Gramotin	November 20, 1611	September 1612
Fedor Androsov (Acting)	September 1612	June 1613
Pyotr Tretyakov	June 1613	May 16, 1618	Michael I
Ivan Gramotin	May 1618	December 21, 1626
Efim Telepnev	December 22, 1626	July 30, 1630
Fedor Likhachov	September 21, 1630	December 25, 1631
Ivan Gryazev	October 1, 1632	April 17, 1634
Ivan Gramotin	May 19, 1634	July 19, 1635
Fedor Likhachov	September 21, 1635	September 1, 1643
Grigory Lvov	September 1, 1643	December 27, 1646
Grigory Lvov	September 1, 1643	December 27, 1646	Alexis
Nazary Chistoy	January 6, 1647	June 2, 1648
Mikhail Volosheninov	July 4, 1648	April 1653
Almaz Ivanov	September 28, 1653	March 10, 1667
Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin	July 15, 1667	February 21, 1671
Artamon Matveyev	February 22, 1671	July 3, 1676
Larion Ivanov	July 4, 1676	December 21, 1680
Larion Ivanov	July 4, 1676	December 21, 1680	Feodor III
Vasily Volynsky	December 21, 1680	May 6, 1681
Larion Ivanov (Acting)	May 6, 1681	May 15, 1682
Larion Ivanov (Acting)	May 6, 1681	May 15, 1682	Sofia Alekseyevna, Ivan V and Peter I
Vasily Galitzine	May 17, 1682	September 6, 1689	Sofia Alekseyevna, Ivan V and Peter I
Emelian Ukraintsev	September 6, 1689	April 19, 1699	Ivan V and Peter I
Lev Naryshkin	1697	1699	Peter I

Russian Empire

Name	Term of office		Head of State
Fyodor Golovin	February 18, 1700	August 2, 1706	Peter I
Pyotr Shafirov	September 1706	1708
Gavriil Golovkin	1708	January 20, 1734
			Catherine I
			Peter II
			Anna
Andrey Osterman	1734	1740	Anna
Aleksey Tcherkassky	November 10, 1740	November 4, 1742	Ivan VI
Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin	November 4, 1742	February 15, 1758	Elizabeth
Mikhail Vorontsov	November 23, 1758	October 27, 1763	Elizabeth
Mikhail Vorontsov	November 23, 1758	October 27, 1763	Peter III
Nikita Panin	October 27, 1763	April 10, 1781	Catherine II
Ivan Osterman	April 10, 1781	May 2, 1797	Catherine II
Aleksandr Bezborodko	May 2, 1797	April 6, 1799	Paul I
Fyodor Rostopchin	April 6, 1799	February 20, 1801	Paul I
Nikita Panin	March 23, 1801	September 30, 1801	Alexander I
Viktor Kochubey	September 30, 1801	September 8, 1802
Alexander Vorontsov	September 8, 1802	January 16, 1804
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski	January 16, 1804	Juny 17, 1806
Andreas Eberhard von Budberg	Juny 17, 1806	August 30, 1807
Nikolay Rumiantsev	February 12, 1808	August 1, 1814
Ioannis Kapodistrias (Joint with Karl Nesselrode)	January 31, 1816	August 19, 1822
Karl Nesselrode	1814	April 15, 1856
Karl Nesselrode	1814	April 15, 1856	Nicholas I
Alexander Gorchakov	April 15, 1856	9 April 1882	Alexander II
Nicholas de Giers	April 9, 1882	January 26, 1895	Alexander III
Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky	March 18, 1895	August 30, 1896	Nicholas II
Nikolay Shishkin	September 1, 1896	January 13, 1897
Mikhail Muravyov	January 13, 1897	June 21, 1900
Vladimir Lambsdorff	January 6, 1901	May 11, 1906
Alexander Izvolsky	May 11, 1906	October 11, 1910
Sergey Sazonov	October 11, 1910	July 20, 1916
Boris Stürmer	July 20, 1916	November 23, 1916
Nikolay Pokrovsky	November 23, 1916	March 2, 1917

Provisional Government/Russian Republic

	Party	Term of Office
Pavel Milyukov	Constitutional Democratic Party	March 2, 1917	May 1, 1917	George Lvov
Mikhail Tereshchenko	Independent	May 5, 1917	October 29, 1917	George Lvov
Mikhail Tereshchenko	Independent	May 5, 1917	October 29, 1917	Alexander Kerensky

Soviet Union

№	Name	Term of office		Head of State
57	Georgy Chicherin	July 6, 1923	July 21, 1930	Vladimir Lenin
57	Georgy Chicherin	July 6, 1923	July 21, 1930	Joseph Stalin
58	Maxim Litvinov	July 21, 1930	May 3, 1939
59	Vyacheslav Molotov	May 3, 1939	March 4, 1949
60	Andrey Vyshinsky	March 4, 1949	March 5, 1953
61	Vyacheslav Molotov	March 5, 1953	June 1, 1956
61	Vyacheslav Molotov	March 5, 1953	June 1, 1956	Nikita Khrushchev
62	Dmitri Shepilov	June 1, 1956	February 15, 1957
63	Andrei Gromyko	February 15, 1957	July 27, 1985
				Leonid Brezhnev
				Yuri Andropov
				Konstantin Chernenko
64	Eduard Shevardnadze	July 28, 1985	December 20, 1990	Mikhail Gorbachev
65	Aleksandr Bessmertnykh	January 15, 1991	August 28, 1991
	Boris Pankin (Acting)	August 28, 1991	November 14, 1991

Minister of External Relations of the USSR (1991-1991)

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
1		Eduard Shevardnadze	November 19, 1991	December 26, 1991

Russian SFSR

Minister		Party	Term of Office
	Leon Trotsky	Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik)	November 8, 1917	March 13, 1918	Lev Kamenev
	Georgy Chicherin	Communist Party	April 9, 1918	July 6, 1923	Lev Kamenev
Post abolished (1923–1944)
	Anatoly Lavrentiev	Communist Party	March 8, 1944	March 13, 1946	Nikolay Shvernik
Post abolished (1946–1959)
	Mikhail Yakovlev	Communist Party	April 16, 1959	August 5, 1960	Nikolai Ignatov
	Mikhail Yakovlev	Communist Party	April 16, 1959	August 5, 1960	Nikolay Organov
	Sergey Lapin	Communist Party	September 5, 1960	January 20, 1962
	Mikhail Menshikov	Communist Party	February 1, 1962	September 11, 1968
					Nikolai Ignatov
					Mikhail Yasnov
	Aleksei A. Rodionov	Communist Party	September 11, 1968	May 7, 1971
	Fyodor Titov	Communist Party	May 7, 1971	May 28, 1982
	Vladimir Vinogradov	Communist Party	May 28, 1982	June 15, 1990
					Vladimir Orlov
					Vitaly Vorotnikov
	Andrey Kozyrev	Independent	October 11, 1990	May 16, 1992	Boris Yeltsin

Russian Federation

	Party	Term of Office
Andrey Kozyrev	Independent	May 16, 1992	January 5, 1996	Boris Yeltsin
Yevgeny Primakov	Independent	January 10, 1996	September 11, 1998
Igor Ivanov	Independent	September 30, 1998	February 24, 2004
Igor Ivanov	Independent	September 30, 1998	February 24, 2004	Vladimir Putin
Sergey Lavrov	United Russia	February 24, 2004	Incumbent	Vladimir Putin
				Dmitry Medvedev
				Vladimir Putin
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References

"Russia's foreign policy for 1000". Archived from the original on 2014-09-27. Retrieved 2016-02-20.

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