Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent Sergey Lavrov since February 24, 2004
Appointer	President of Russia
First holder	Ivan Viskovatyi (1st head of the Russian Foreign Ministry) Andrey Kozyrev (1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)
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.

Heads of Posolsky Prikaz, 1549–1699

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
1		Ivan Viskovatyi	January 2, 1549	August 2, 1562	Ivan IV
2		Andrey Vasilyev	September, 1562	July 25, 1570
3		Andrey Shchelkalov	November, 1570	June 17, 1594
4		Vasily Shchelkalov	June 30, 1594	May, 1601	Feodor I
					Boris Godunov
5		Afanasy Vlasyev	May, 1601	May 8, 1605
					Feodor II
6		Ivan Gramotin	August, 1605	February 14, 1606	False Dmitriy I
7		Vasily Telepnev	1606	Marh, 1611	Vasili IV
					False Dmitry II
8		Ivan Gramotin	November 20, 1611	September, 1612
–		Fedor Androsov (Acting)	September, 1612	June, 1613
9		Pyotr Tretyakov	June, 1613	May 16, 1618	Michael I
10		Ivan Gramotin	May, 1618	December 21, 1626
11		Efim Telepnev	December 22, 1626	July 30, 1630
12		Fedor Likhachov	September 21, 1630	December 25, 1631
13		Ivan Gryazev	October 1, 1632	April 17, 1634
14		Ivan Gramotin	May 19, 1634	July 19, 1635
15		Fedor Likhachov	September 21, 1635	September 1, 1643
16		Grigory Lvov	September 1, 1643	December 27, 1646
					Alexis
17		Nazary Chistoy	January 6, 1647	June 2, 1648
18		Mikhail Volosheninov	Jaly 4, 1648	April, 1653
19		Almaz Ivanov	September 28, 1653	March 10, 1667
21		Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin	Jaly 15, 1667	February 21, 1671
22		Artamon Matveyev	February 22, 1671	July 3, 1676
23		Larion Ivanov	July 4, 1676	December 21, 1680
					Feodor III
24		Vasily Volynsky	December 21, 1680	May 6, 1681
–		Larion Ivanov (Acting)	May 6, 1681	May 15, 1682
					Sofia Alekseyevna, Ivan V and Peter I
25		Vasily Galitzine	May 17, 1682	September 6, 1689
26		Emelian Ukraintsev	September 6, 1689	April 19, 1699	Ivan V and Peter I
27		Lev Naryshkin	1697	1699	Peter I

Chancellors and vice-chancellors of the Russian Empire, 1699–1801

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
28		Fyodor Golovin	February 18, 1700	August 2, 1706	Peter I
29		Pyotr Shafirov	September 1706	1708
30		Gavriil Golovkin	1708	January 20, 1734
					Catherine I
					Peter II
					Anna
31		Andrey Osterman	1734	1740
32		Aleksey Tcherkassky	November 10, 1740	November 4, 1742	Ivan VI
33		Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin	November 4, 1742	February 15, 1758	Elizabeth
34		Mikhail Vorontsov	November 23, 1758	October 27, 1763
					Peter III
35		Nikita Panin	October 27, 1763	April 10, 1781	Catherine II
36		Ivan Osterman	April 10, 1781	May 2, 1797
37		Aleksandr Bezborodko	May 2, 1797	April 6, 1799	Paul I
38		Fyodor Rostopchin	April 6, 1799	February 20, 1801
39		Nikita Panin	March 23, 1801	September 30, 1801	Alexander I

Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire, 1801–1917

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
40		Viktor Kochubey	September 30, 1801	September 8, 1802	Alexander I
41		Alexander Vorontsov	September 8, 1802	January 16, 1804
42		Adam Jerzy Czartoryski	January 16, 1804	Juny 17, 1806
43		Andrei Budberg	Juny 17, 1806	August 30, 1807
43		Nikolay Rumiantsev	February 12, 1808	August 1, 1814
44		Karl Nesselrode	1814	April 15, 1856
					Nicholas I
45		Alexander Gorchakov	April 15, 1856	9 April 1882	Alexander II
46		Nicholas de Giers	April 9, 1882	January 26, 1895	Alexander III
47		Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky	March 18, 1895	August 30, 1896	Nicholas II
48		Nikolay Shishkin	September 1, 1896	January 13, 1897
49		Mikhail Muravyov	January 13, 1897	June 21, 1900
50		Vladimir Lambsdorff	January 6, 1901	May 11, 1906
51		Alexander Izvolsky	May 11, 1906	October 11, 1910
52		Sergey Sazonov	October 11, 1910	July 20, 1916
53		Boris Stürmer	July 20, 1916	November 23, 1916
53		Nikolay Pokrovsky	November 23, 1916	March 2, 1917

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
54		Pavel Milyukov	March 2, 1917	May 1, 1917	George Lvov
55		Mikhail Tereshchenko	May 5, 1917	October 29, 1917
					Alexander Kerensky

Foreign Ministers of the Russian SFSR: 1917–23

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
56		Lev Trotsky	November 8, 1917	April 9, 1918	Vladimir Lenin
57		Georgy Chicherin	April 9, 1918	July 6, 1923

Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1923–91

Main article: Ministry of External Relations of the USSR

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
57		Georgy Chicherin	July 6, 1923	July 21, 1930	Vladimir Lenin
					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
					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
66		Boris Pankin	August 28, 1991	November 14, 1991
67		Eduard Shevardnadze	November 19, 1991	December 26, 1991

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1991–

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
68		Andrey Kozyrev	December 25, 1991	January 5, 1996	Boris Yeltsin
69		Yevgeny Primakov	January 10, 1996	September 11, 1998
70		Igor Ivanov	September 30, 1998	February 24, 2004
					Vladimir Putin
71		Sergey Lavrov	February 24, 2004	Incumbent
					Dmitry Medvedev
					Vladimir Putin

See also

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)