List of Russian and Soviet Rulers since 1462
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House of Rurik | ||
| Ivan III (the Great), 1462–1505 | ||
| Vasily III, 1505–33 | ||
| Ivan IV (the Terrible), 1533–84 | ||
| Feodor I, 1584–98 | ||
House of Godunov | ||
| Boris Godunov, 1598–1605 | ||
| Feodor II, 1605 | ||
Usurpers | ||
| Dmitri, 1605–6 | ||
| Vasily IV, 1606–10 | ||
| Interregnum, 1610–13 | ||
House of Romanov | ||
| Michael, 1613–45 | ||
| Alexis, 1645–76 | ||
| Feodor III, 1676–82 | ||
| Ivan V and Peter I (the Great), 1682–96 | ||
| Peter I (the Great), 1696–1725 | ||
| Catherine I, 1725–27 | ||
| Peter II, 1727–30 | ||
| Anna, 1730–40 | ||
| Ivan VI, 1740–41 | ||
| Elizabeth, 1741–62 | ||
| Peter III, 1762 | ||
| Catherine II (the Great), 1762–96 | ||
| Paul I, 1796–1801 | ||
| Alexander I, 1801–25 | ||
| Nicholas I, 1825–55 | ||
| Alexander II, 1855–81 | ||
| Alexander III, 1881–94 | ||
| Nicholas II, 1894–1917 | ||
Provisional Government | ||
| Prince Georgi Lvov, Mar.-July, 1917 | ||
| Aleksandr Kerensky, July-Nov., 1917 | ||
Soviet Russia (1917–22) and the USSR (1922–91) | ||
| Vladimir Lenin, chairman, Council of People's Commissars, 1917–24 | ||
| Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev, and Grigori Zinoviev, 1924–26 | ||
| Joseph Stalin, Communist party general secretary, 1926–53 | ||
| Nikita Khrushchev, Communist party first secretary, and Georgi Malenkov, premier, 1953–55 | ||
| Nikita Khrushchev, Communist party first secretary, and Nikolai Bulganin, premier, 1955–58 | ||
| Nikita Khrushchev, Communist party first secretary and premier, 1958–64 | ||
| Leonid Brezhnev, Communist party first secretary (after 1966, general secretary), 1964–82 | ||
| Yuri Andropov, Communist party general secretary, 1982–84 | ||
| Konstantin Chernenko, Communist party general secretary, 1984–85 | ||
| Mikhail Gorbachev, Communist party general secretary, 1985–91 | ||
Russian Federation | ||
| Boris Yeltsin, 1991–99 | ||
| Vladimir Putin, 1999–2008 (acting president, Dec. 1999–May 2000) | ||
| Dmitri Medvedev, 2008–12 | ||
| Vladimir Putin, 2012– | ||