People of the Revolution and the USSR
Government and administration
Russian Empire (state)
The old regime and its challengers 1905–1917
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- Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov Михаил Тариелович Лорис-Меликов Armenian-born reformist minister called the "dictator of the heart"
- Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev Константин Петрович Победоносцев The 'Grand Inquisitor' who made autocracy a creed
- Ivan Logginovich Goremykin Иван Логгинович Горемыкин The empire's last prime minister who believed doing nothing would save autocracy
- Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn Николай Дмитриевич Голицын The last premier of the empire, who begged to be excused
- Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirsky Пётр Дмитриевич Святополк-Мирский The interior minister whose 'era of trust' promised reform, and ended in Bloody Sunday
- Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko Михаил Владимирович Родзянко The parliamentarian the Tsar called 'fat-bellied': last chairman of the Imperial Duma
- Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov Георгий Евгеньевич Львов A scion of Rurik, the Empire's last liberal premier
- Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин The premier who held the gallows in one hand and reform in the other
- Sergey Yefimovich Kryzhanovsky Сергей Ефимович Крыжановский The Empire's legal architect who tamed the Duma with the "shameless" electoral law of 1907
- Nikolai Mikhaylovich Kishkin Николай Михайлович Кишкин The Kadet minister named special plenipotentiary to save Petrograd on the day of the October Revolution
- Vladimir Fyodorovich Dzhunkovsky Владимир Фёдорович Джунковский The last gendarme chief who reformed the Okhrana and warned the Tsar about Rasputin
- Alexander Dmitrievich Protopopov Александр Дмитриевич Протопопов The last interior minister of the Russian Empire: elevated by Rasputin, destroyed by his own unraveling
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov Михаил Александрович Романов The last Romanov who could have been tsar, and who deferred the crown to a Constituent Assembly
- Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky Александр Фёдорович Керенский The orator ground away between revolution and counter-revolution