House of RurikIvan III (the Great), 1462–1505 | Vasily III, 1505–33 | Ivan IV (the Terrible), 1533–84 | Feodor I, 1584–98 | |
House of GodunovBoris Godunov, 1598–1605 | Feodor II, 1605 | |
UsurpersDmitri, 1605–6 | Vasily IV, 1606–10 | Interregnum, 1610–13 | |
House of RomanovMichael, 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(premiers)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(presidents)Boris Yeltsin, 1991–99 | Vladimir Putin, 1999–2008 (acting president, Dec. 1999–May 2000) | Dmitri Medvedev, 2008–12 | Vladimir Putin, 2012– | |