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Peter The Great
Ruling ended on February 8, 1725. He conquered land on the Baltic Sea and founded St. Petersburg where it then became the capital of Russia. -
Catherine I
Ruling ended on May 17, 1727. She created the Supreme Privy Council which over ruled the Senate when it came to government affairs. -
Peter II
Ruling ended on January 30, 1730. Prince Alexander Menshikov looked after Peter II as he was younger. Different people wanted to manipulate him before he could make decisions on his own. -
Anna
Ruling ended on October 28, 1740. She abolished the Privy Council and punished most of the members. -
Ivan VI
Ruling ended on December 6, 1741. He was a prisoner at a young age. -
Elizabeth
Ruling ended on January 5, 1762. The economy blossomed and she took away some excise taxes. -
Peter III
Ruling ended on July 17, 1762. He lowered the Senate and removed some top officials. -
Catherine II
Ruling ended on November 6, 1796. Her government styles were cautious when it came to consulting anyone, she was concerned with the community and became a hands on ruler. -
Paul I
Ruling ended on March 11, 1801. He forbid landowners to make serfs work on Sundays and religious feasts, he then added taxes onto noble estates. -
Alexander I
Ruling ended on December 1, 1825. He revoked thousands of people sentenced to prison or to be exiled. He also eased restrictions on foreign travel. -
Constantine
Ruling ended on December 26, 1825. He kept his distance from polotics and stayed faithful to the military. -
Nicholas I
Ruling ended on March 2, 1855. He put ministers in important positions and mainly relied on them to govern. -
Alexander II The Liberator
Ruling ended on March 13, 1881. He freed the serfs and peasants, and also enlarged the areas of study for education. -
Nicholas II
Ruling ended on March 16, 1917. He valued order and guidance which is then how he ruled Russia. -
Vladimir Lenin
Lenin was the leader of Russia until January 21, 1924. He believed that uprisings from the unstable minorities throughout the imperial borders could help ruin the empire. -
Joseph Stalin
Stalin remained leader until March 5, 1953. He used a five year program of industrial development to gain dictorial control. He gained dictorial control over the party, the state, and the Communist International. -
Georgy Malenkov
Malenkov remained leader until March 16, 1953. He bcame the chairman of the Council of Ministers, and the main party secretary. -
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev remained leader until October 14, 1964. He tried to change what Stalin had already done. -
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev remained leader until November 10, 1982. He continued Khrushchev's ideas and added some of his own. -
Yuri Andropov
Andropov remained leader until February 9, 1984. He made key changes in the top party leaders and replaced many ministers and regional party leaders with younger leaders. -
Konstantin Chernenko
Chernenko remained leader until March 10, 1985. He was close with Brezhev and became secretary of the Central Committee. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev remained leader until December 25, 1991. He tried to increase the amount of grain production, unfortunately it fell from 230 million to 150 million. -
Boris Yeltsin
Yeltsin was President until December 31, 1999. He began establishing a new state, market economy, and political system. -
Vladimir Putin
Putin served as President until May 7, 2008. He fired many people that were much help to Yeltsin in the house. -
Dmitry Medvedev
Medvedev served as President until May 7, 2012. He said he would be different from Putin, he did act differently but he did not differ from him when it came to resolving issues. -
Vladimir Putin
Putin can now remain President until May 7, 2018. He was named chariman of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
