- Leaders of Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union
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▪ TableLeaders of Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet UnionPrinces and grand princes of Moscow (Muscovy): Danilovich dynasty*Daniel (son of Alexander Nevsky) c. 1276-1303Yury 1303-25Ivan I 1325-40Semyon (Simeon) 1340-53Ivan II 1353-59Dmitry (II) Donskoy 1359-89Vasily I 1389-1425Vasily II 1425-62Ivan III 1462-1505Vasily III 1505-33Ivan IV 1533-47Tsars of Russia: Danilovich dynastyIvan IV 1547-84Fyodor I 1584-98Tsars of Russia: Time of TroublesBoris Godunov (Godunov, Boris) 1598-1605Fyodor II 1605False Dmitry (Dmitry, False) 1605-06Vasily (IV) Shuysky 1606-10Interregnum 1610-12Tsars and empresses of Russia and the Russian Empire: Romanov dynasty**Michael 1613-45Alexis 1645-76Fyodor III 1676-82Catherine I 1725-27Peter II 1727-30Anna 1730-40Ivan VI 1740-41Elizabeth 1741-61 (O.S.)Peter III*** 1761-62 (O.S.)Catherine II 1762-96Paul 1796-1801Alexander I 1801-25Nicholas I 1825-55Alexander II 1855-81Alexander III 1881-94Nicholas II 1894-1917Provisional Government 1917Chairmen (or first secretaries) of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionVladimir Ilich Lenin (Lenin, Vladimir Ilich) 1917-24Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Joseph) 1924-53Georgy Malenkov (Malenkov, Georgy Maksimilianovich) 1953Nikita Khrushchev (Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich) 1953-64Leonid Brezhnev (Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich) 1964-82Yury Andropov (Andropov, Yury Vladimirovich) 1982-84Konstantin Chernenko (Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich) 1984-85Mikhail Gorbachev (Gorbachev, Mikhail) 1985-91President of RussiaBoris Yeltsin (Yeltsin, Boris) 1991-99Vladimir Putin (Putin, Vladimir) 1999-2008Dmitry Medvedev (Medvedev, Dmitry) 2008-*The Danilovich dynasty is a late branch of the Rurik dynasty, 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, Peter III, was son of Charles Frederick, duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and Anna, daughter of Peter I) took the family name of Romanov.See as table:
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