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Russian/Soviet Leaders from 1462 to 1995:

RUSSIAN TSARS

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
  

Interrugnum, 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
  

SOVIET RUSSIA

• Alexander Kerensky, Provisional Government Head, July-October, 1917
  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Soviet Premier, 1917-22
  Josef Stalin, Secretary General, 1922-1953
  Nikita Kruschev, Secretary General, 1953-64
  Lenoid Brezhnev, Secretary General, 1964-82
  Yuri Andropov, Secretary General, 1982-84
  Konstantin Chernenko, Secretary General, 1984-85
  Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary General, 1985-91
  

RUSSIAN REPUBLIC

• Boris Yeltsin, President, 1991-1999
  Vladimir Putin, Acting President, 1999-
  

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