Russian Leaders

By TheATeam4
  • Apr 5, 1462

    Ivan III (The Great)

    Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • Jan 16, 1547

    Ivan IV (The Terrible)

    Crowned first czar and extended his power across Russia.

  • Michael Romanov

    Was elected as the new Tsar by a national assembly.

  • Peter I (The Great)

    Becomes czar and begins modernizing Russia.

  • Catherine II (The Great)

    Empress of Russia. Longest-ruling female of Russia.

  • Alexander II

    Alexander II
    Emporer of Russian, until assasinated in 1881.

  • Nicholas II

    Came to the throne. Was the last Emperor of Russia.

  • Alexander Kerensky

    Major political leader during and before the Russian Revolution of 1917.

  • Vladimir Lenin

    Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

  • Joseph Stalin

    Began the Great Purge. Was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

  • Nikita Khrushchev

    Led the soviet union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Elected as president of the Soviet Union.

  • Boris Yeltsin

    Elecet president when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned.

  • Vladimir Putin

    Elected as president in 2000, still president from 2012.

  • Dimitri Medvedev

    He is the tenth, and current Prime Minister of Russia.

  • Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev

    Converts to Christianity and eastern orthadox church.