# Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

The minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation is a high-ranking Russian government official who heads the ministry of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation. The foreign minister is one of the five presidential ministers, along with the ministers of defence, interior, emergencies and justice. Although they are members of the Cabinet, they are directly subordinate to the President.
The foreign minister, like other presidential ministers, is nominated and appointed by the President after consultation with the Federation Council (whereas non-presidential ministers are nominated by the Prime Minister and appointed by the President after approval by the State Duma). The foreign minister is also a permanent member of the Russian Security Council.

## Tsardom of Russia

| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Term of office | Head of State |
| Heads of Ambassadorial Prikaz |||||
| | Ivan Viskovatyi | January 2, 1549 | August 2, 1562 | Ivan IV |
| | Andrey Vasilyev | September, 1562 | July 25, 1570 | Ivan IV |
| | Andrey Shchelkalov | November, 1570 | June 17, 1594 | Ivan IV |
| | Andrey Shchelkalov | November, 1570 | June 17, 1594 | Feodor I |
| | 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 |
| | 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 | False Dmitry II |
| | Fyodor Androsov (Acting) | September 1612 | June 1613 | False Dmitry II |
| | Pyotr Tretyakov | June 1613 | May 16, 1618 | Michael |
| | Ivan Gramotin | May 1618 | December 21, 1626 | Michael |
| | Yefim Telepnyov | December 22, 1626 | July 30, 1630 | Michael |
| | Fyodor Likhachov | September 21, 1630 | December 25, 1631 | Michael |
| | Ivan Gryazev | October 1, 1632 | April 17, 1634 | Michael |
| | Ivan Gramotin | May 19, 1634 | July 19, 1635 | Michael |
| | Fyodor Likhachov | September 21, 1635 | September 1, 1643 | Michael |
| | Grigory Lvov | September 1, 1643 | December 27, 1646 | Michael |
| | Grigory Lvov | September 1, 1643 | December 27, 1646 | Alexis |
| | Nazary Chistoy | January 6, 1647 | June 2, 1648 | Alexis |
| | Mikhail Volosheninov | July 4, 1648 | April 1653 | Alexis |
| | Almaz Ivanov | September 28, 1653 | March 10, 1667 | Alexis |
| | Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin | July 15, 1667 | February 21, 1671 | Alexis |
| | Artamon Matveyev | February 22, 1671 | July 3, 1676 | Alexis |
| | Larion Ivanov | July 4, 1676 | December 21, 1680 | Feodor III |
| | Vasily Volynsky | December 21, 1680 | May 6, 1681 | Feodor III |
| | Larion Ivanov (Acting) | May 6, 1681 | May 15, 1682 | Feodor III |
| | Vasily Golitsyn | May 17, 1682 | September 6, 1689 | Ivan V and Peter I (regency of Sofia Alekseyevna) |
| | Emelian Ukraintsev | September 6, 1689 | April 19, 1699 | Ivan V and Peter I |
| | Emelian Ukraintsev | September 6, 1689 | April 19, 1699 | Peter I |
| | Lev Naryshkin | 1697 | 1699 | Peter I |
| | Fyodor Golovin | February 18, 1700 | August 2, 1706 | Peter I |
| | Pyotr Shafirov | September 1706 | 1708 | Peter I |
| | Gavriil Golovkin | 1708 | 15 December 1717 | Peter I |

## Russian Empire

| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Term of office | Head of State |
| Presidents of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs |||||
| | Gavriil Golovkin | 15 December 1717 | January 20, 1734 | Peter I |
| | Gavriil Golovkin | 15 December 1717 | January 20, 1734 | Catherine I |
| | Gavriil Golovkin | 15 December 1717 | January 20, 1734 | Peter II |
| | Gavriil Golovkin | 15 December 1717 | January 20, 1734 | 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 I |
| Ministers of Foreign Affairs |||||
| | Alexander Vorontsov | September 8, 1802 | January 16, 1804 | Alexander I |
| | Adam Jerzy Czartoryski | January 16, 1804 | June 17, 1806 | Alexander I |
| | Andreas Eberhard von Budberg | June 17, 1806 | August 30, 1807 | Alexander I |
| | Nikolay Rumyantsev | February 12, 1808 | August 1, 1814 | Alexander I |
| | Ioannis Kapodistrias (Joint with Karl Nesselrode) | January 31, 1816 | August 19, 1822 | Alexander I |
| | Karl Nesselrode | 1814 | April 15, 1856 | Alexander I |
| | 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 | Nicholas II |
| | Mikhail Muravyov | January 13, 1897 | June 21, 1900 | Nicholas II |
| | Vladimir Lambsdorff | January 6, 1901 | May 11, 1906 | Nicholas II |
| | Alexander Izvolsky | May 11, 1906 | October 11, 1910 | Nicholas II |
| | Sergey Sazonov | October 11, 1910 | July 20, 1916 | Nicholas II |
| | Boris Stürmer | July 20, 1916 | November 23, 1916 | Nicholas II |
| | Nikolay Pokrovsky | November 23, 1916 | March 2, 1917 | Nicholas II |

## Provisional Government

| Minister | Minister | Party | Term of Office | Term of Office | Prime Minister |
| Ministers of Foreign Affairs ||||||||
| | Pavel Milyukov | Constitutional Democratic Party | March 2, 1917 | May 1, 1917 | George Lvov |
| | Mikhail Tereshchenko | Independent | May 5, 1917 | November 7, 1917 | George Lvov |
| | Mikhail Tereshchenko | Independent | May 5, 1917 | November 7, 1917 | Alexander Kerensky |

## Russian SFSR (1917–1991)

| Minister | Minister | Party | Term of Office | Term of Office | Head of State |
| People's Commissars of Foreign Affairs ||||||||
| | Leon Trotsky | Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik) | November 7, 1917 | March 13, 1918 | Lev Kamenev |
| | Georgy Chicherin | Communist Party | April 9, 1918 | July 6, 1923 | Lev Kamenev |
| Post abolished (1923–1944). Power transferred to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. ||||||||
| | Anatoly Lavrentiev | Communist Party | March 8, 1944 | March 13, 1946 | Nikolay Shvernik |
| Post abolished ||||||||
| Ministers of Foreign Affairs ||||||||
| | 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 | Nikolay Organov |
| | Mikhail Menshikov | Communist Party | February 1, 1962 | September 11, 1968 | Nikolay Organov |
| | Mikhail Menshikov | Communist Party | February 1, 1962 | September 11, 1968 | Nikolai Ignatov |
| | Mikhail Menshikov | Communist Party | February 1, 1962 | September 11, 1968 | Mikhail Yasnov |
| | Aleksei A. Rodionov | Communist Party | September 11, 1968 | May 7, 1971 | Mikhail Yasnov |
| | Fyodor Titov | Communist Party | May 7, 1971 | May 28, 1982 | Mikhail Yasnov |
| | Vladimir Vinogradov | Communist Party | May 28, 1982 | June 15, 1990 | Mikhail Yasnov |
| | Vladimir Vinogradov | Communist Party | May 28, 1982 | June 15, 1990 | Vladimir Orlov |
| | Vladimir Vinogradov | Communist Party | May 28, 1982 | June 15, 1990 | Vitaly Vorotnikov |
| | Andrey Kozyrev | Independent | October 11, 1990 | December 26, 1991 | Boris Yeltsin |

## Russian Federation (1991–present)

| Minister | Minister | Term of Office | Term of Office | Party | Cabinet | President |
| Ministers of Foreign Affairs |||||||||
| | Andrey Kozyrev | December 27, 1991 | January 5, 1996 | Independent | Yeltsin–Gaidar | Boris Yeltsin |
| | Andrey Kozyrev | December 27, 1991 | January 5, 1996 | Independent | Chernomyrdin I | Boris Yeltsin |
| | Yevgeny Primakov | January 9, 1996 | September 11, 1998 | Independent | Chernomyrdin I | Boris Yeltsin |
| | Yevgeny Primakov | January 9, 1996 | September 11, 1998 | Independent | Chernomyrdin II | Boris Yeltsin |
| | Yevgeny Primakov | January 9, 1996 | September 11, 1998 | Independent | Kiriyenko | Boris Yeltsin |
| | Igor Ivanov | September 30, 1998 | February 24, 2004 | Independent | Primakov | Boris Yeltsin |
| | Igor Ivanov | September 30, 1998 | February 24, 2004 | Independent | Stepashin | Boris Yeltsin |
| | Igor Ivanov | September 30, 1998 | February 24, 2004 | Independent | Putin I | Boris Yeltsin |
| | Igor Ivanov | September 30, 1998 | February 24, 2004 | Independent | Kasyanov | Vladimir Putin |
| | Sergey Lavrov | February 24, 2004 | Incumbent | United Russia | Fradkov I | Vladimir Putin |
| | Sergey Lavrov | February 24, 2004 | Incumbent | United Russia | Fradkov II | Vladimir Putin |
| | Sergey Lavrov | February 24, 2004 | Incumbent | United Russia | Zubkov | Vladimir Putin |
| | Sergey Lavrov | February 24, 2004 | Incumbent | United Russia | Putin II | Dmitry Medvedev |
| | Sergey Lavrov | February 24, 2004 | Incumbent | United Russia | Medvedev I | Vladimir Putin |
| | Sergey Lavrov | February 24, 2004 | Incumbent | United Russia | Medvedev II | Vladimir Putin |
| | Sergey Lavrov | February 24, 2004 | Incumbent | United Russia | Mishustin I | Vladimir Putin |
| | Sergey Lavrov | February 24, 2004 | Incumbent | United Russia | Mishustin II | Vladimir Putin |