Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)
This is a list of foreign ministers of Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 1939-1949
- Andrey Vyshinsky 1949-1953
- Vyacheslav Molotov 1953-1956
- Dmitri Shepilov June 1956-February 1957
- Andrei Gromyko 14 February 1957- 27 July 1985
- Eduard Shevardnadze 28 July 1985- 20 December 1990
- Aleksandr Bessmertnykh 15 January - 28 August 1991
- Boris Pankin 28 August - November 14 1991
- Eduard Shevardnadze November 19 - December 26 1991
Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1992-
- Andrey Kozyrev 1991-96
- Yevgeny Primakov 1996-98
- Igor Ivanov 1998-2004
- Sergei Lavrov 2004-