Rulers of Russia Since 1533

Name	Ruled¹	Born
Ivan IV the Terrible	1533–1584	1530
Theodore I	1584–1598	1557
Boris Godunov	1598–1605	c.1551
Theodore II	1605–1605	1589
Demetrius I²	1605–1606	?
Basil IV Shuiski	1606–1610³	?
“Time of Troubles”	1610–1613	—
Michael Romanov	1613–1645	1596
Alexis I	1645–1676	1629
Theodore III	1676–1682	1656
Ivan V⁴	1682–1689⁵	1666
Peter I the Great⁴	1682–1725	1672
Catherine I	1725–1727	c.1684
Peter II	1727–1730	1715
Anna	1730–1740	1693
Ivan VI	1740–1741⁶	1740
Elizabeth	1741–1762	1709
Peter III	1762–1762	1728
Catherine II the Great	1762–1796	1729
Paul I	1796–1801	1754
Alexander I	1801–1825	1777
Nicholas I	1825–1855	1796
Alexander II	1855–1881	1818
Alexander III	1881–1894	1845
Nicholas II	1894–1917⁷	1868
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT (PREMIERS)
Prince Georgi Lvov	1917–1917	1861
Alexander Kerensky	1917–1917	1881
POLITICAL LEADERS OF USSR
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin	1917–1924	1870
Aleksei Rykov	1924–1930	1881
Vyacheslav Molotov	1930–1941	1890
Joseph Stalin⁸	1941–1953	1879
Georgi M. Malenkov	1953–1955	1902
Nikolai A. Bulganin	1955–1958	1895
Nikita S. Khrushchev	1958–1964	1894
Leonid I. Brezhnev	1964–1982	1906
Yuri V. Andropov	1982–1984	1914
Konstantin U. Chernenko	1984–1985	1912
Mikhail S. Gorbachev	1985–1991	1931
PRESIDENTS OF RUSSIA
Boris Yeltsin	1991–1999	1931
Vladimir Putin	2000–	1952

1. For czars through Nicholas II, year of end of rule is also that of death, unless otherwise indicated.

2. Also known as Pseudo-Demetrius.

3. Died 1612.

4. Ivan V and Peter I the Great ruled jointly until 1689, when Ivan was deposed.

5. Died 1696.

6. Died 1764.

7. Killed 1918.

8. General secretary of Communist Party, 1924–1953.