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Leaders of Russia from 1276
in Russia
Also known as: Rossija, Rossiya, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Russian Federation, Russian S.F.S.R., Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
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The table provides a chronological list of the leaders of Russia from 1276 onward.
| princes and grand princes of Moscow (Muscovy): Danilovich dynasty* | |
|---|---|
| *The Danilovich dynasty is a late branch of the Rurik dynasty and is named after its progenitor, Daniel. | |
| **On Oct. 22 (O.S.), 1721, Peter I the Great took the title of "emperor" (Russian: imperator), considering it a larger, more European title than the Russian "tsar." However, despite the official titling, conventional usage took an odd turn. Every male sovereign continued usually to be called tsar (and his consort tsarina, or tsaritsa), but every female sovereign was conventionally called empress (imperatritsa). | |
| ***The direct line of the Romanov dynasty came to an end in 1761 with the death of Elizabeth, daughter of Peter I. However, subsequent rulers of the "Holstein-Gottorp dynasty"—the first of whom was Peter III, son of Charles Frederick, duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and Anna, daughter of Peter I—took the family name of Romanov. | |
| Daniel (son of Alexander Nevsky) | c. 1276–1303 |
| Yury | 1303–25 |
| Ivan I | 1325–40 |
| Semyon (Simeon) | 1340–53 |
| Ivan II | 1353–59 |
| Dmitry (II) Donskoy | 1359–89 |
| Vasily I | 1389–1425 |
| Vasily II | 1425–62 |
| Ivan III | 1462–1505 |
| Vasily III | 1505–33 |
| Ivan IV | 1533–47 |
| tsars of Russia: Danilovich dynasty | |
| Ivan IV | 1547–84 |
| Fyodor I | 1584–98 |
| tsars of Russia: Time of Troubles | |
| Boris Godunov | 1598–1605 |
| Fyodor II | 1605 |
| False Dmitry | 1605–06 |
| Vasily (IV) Shuysky | 1606–10 |
| Interregnum | 1610–12 |
| tsars and empresses of Russia and the Russian Empire: Romanov dynasty** | |
| Michael | 1613–45 |
| Alexis | 1645–76 |
| Fyodor III | 1676–82 |
| Peter I (Ivan V coruler 1682–96) | 1682–1725 |
| Catherine I | 1725–27 |
| Peter II | 1727–30 |
| Anna | 1730–40 |
| Ivan VI | 1740–41 |
| Elizabeth | 1741–61 (O.S.) |
| Peter III*** | 1761–62 (O.S.) |
| Catherine II | 1762–96 |
| Paul | 1796–1801 |
| Alexander I | 1801–25 |
| Nicholas I | 1825–55 |
| Alexander II | 1855–81 |
| Alexander III | 1881–94 |
| Nicholas II | 1894–1917 |
| provisional government | 1917 |
| chairmen (or first secretaries) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | |
| Vladimir Ilich Lenin | 1917–24 |
| Joseph Stalin | 1924–53 |
| Georgy Malenkov | 1953 |
| Nikita Khrushchev | 1953–64 |
| Leonid Brezhnev | 1964–82 |
| Yury Andropov | 1982–84 |
| Konstantin Chernenko | 1984–85 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | 1985–91 |
| presidents of Russia | |
| Boris Yeltsin | 1991–99 |
| Vladimir Putin | 1999–2008 |
| Dmitry Medvedev | 2008–12 |
| Vladimir Putin | 2012– |