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Leaders of Russia from 1276

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Also known as: Rossija, Rossiya, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Russian Federation, Russian S.F.S.R., Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic

The table provides a chronological list of the leaders of Russia from 1276 onward.

Leaders of Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union
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–