caption monarch predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place religion nationality article_title birth_date order term_start birthname image signature term_end alma_mater
sergei witte , early 1880s nicholas ii nicholas ii new committee of ministers '' -rrb- ivan nikolayevich durnovo ivan vyshnegradsky post adolf gibbenet -lrb- '' himself as chairman of the ivan minister '' -rrb- eduard pleske apollon krivoshein goremykin post abolished -lrb- '' himself as prime 13 march 1915 tiflis , russian empire petrograd , russian empire russian orthodox russian sergei witte
 29 june 1849 1st russian empire chairman of the committee of ministers 13th finance chairman minister of imperial russia 14th transport minister of imperial russia of the council of ministers of the 6 november 1905 1903 30 august 1892 february 1892 sergei yulyevich witte sergeiwitte01548v.jpg signature of sergei witte.jpg 5 may 1906 1905 16 august 1903 august 1892 novorossiysk university
sergei witte

count sergei yulyevich witte -lrb- , `` sergey yul ` evich vitte '' ви́тэ -lrb- ` vitɛ -rrb- -rrb- -lrb- -rrb- , also known as sergius witte , was a highly influential policy-maker who presided over extensive industrialization within the russian empire .
he served under the last two emperors of russia .
he was also the author of the october manifesto of 1905 , a precursor to russia 's first constitution , and chairman of the council of ministers -lrb- prime minister -rrb- of the russian empire .
