Active Privy Councillor, 1st class (russian: действительный тайный советник первого класса, deystvitelnyi taynyi sovetnik pervogo klassa) was the civil position (class) in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, according to the

Table of Ranks The Table of Ranks (russian: Табель о рангах, Tabel' o rangakh) was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia. Peter the Great introduced the system in 1722 while engaged in a s ...

introduced by

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

in 1722. That was a civil rank of the 1st class and equal to those of

Chancellor Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...

General Field Marshal ''Generalfeldmarschall'' (from Old High German ''marahscalc'', "marshal, stable master, groom"; en, general field marshal, field marshal general, or field marshal; ; often abbreviated to ''Feldmarschall'') was a rank in the armies of several ...

in the Army, and General Admiral in the Navy. The rank holder should be addressed as '' Your High Excellency'' (russian: Ваше Высокопревосходительство, Vashe Vysokoprevoskhoditelstvo).

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The rank was granted to those persons who, by virtue of their official positions, could not be called Chancellors. During the existence of the

, only 13 people received that rank; two of whom later became Chancellors. Almost all of them were representatives of Russian noble families: the Panins, Golitsyns, Lopukhins, Stroganoffs, Kurakins, Razumovskys. In contrast to the rank of the Chancellor, the title of Active Privy Councillor, 1st class was assigned until the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, when the rank was abolished by the Soviet decree on estates and civil ranks.

Active Privy Councillor, 1st class

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Nikita Ivanovich Panin Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin (russian: Ники́та Ива́нович Па́нин) () was an influential Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great for the first 18 years of her reign (1762-1780). In that role, he advocated ...

(1718-1783) #1796 – Prince

Alexander Bezborodko Prince Alexander Andreyevich Bezborodko (russian: Князь Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Безборо́дко; 6 April 1799) was the Grand Chancellor of Russian Empire and chief architect of Catherine the Great's foreign policy afte ...

(1747-1799), from 1797 - Chancellor #1801 – Count

Alexander Vorontsov Count Alexander Romanovich Vorontsov (russian: Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Воронцо́в) (4 February 17412 December 1805) was the Chancellor of the Russian Empire during the early years of Alexander I's reign. He began his car ...

(1741-1805), from 1802 - Chancellor #1807 – Prince Alexander Kurakin (1752-1818) #1811 – Count

Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov (1733–1811) was a Russian baron and a member of the Stroganov family. He was an assistant to the Minister of the Interior, a longtime President of the Imperial Academy of Arts, director of the Russian Imperial ...

(1733-1811) #1814 – Prince

Pyotr Lopukhin Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin (1753, Saint Petersburg – 1827) was a Russian politician and member of the Lopukhin family. He was president of the Council of Ministers from 1816 to 1827. Marriage and issue He married twice: # Praskovia Iva ...

(1753-1827) #1819 – Prince

Andrey Razumovsky Count (later Prince) Andrey Kirillovich Razumovskyrussian: Андре́й Кири́ллович Разумо́вский, , german: Andreas von Rasumofsky (2 November 1752 – 23 September 1836) was a Russian Imperial diplomat who spent man ...

(1752-1836) #1826 – Prince Alexei Borisovich Kurakin (1759-1829) #1841 – Prince Alexander Golitsyn (1773-1844) #1852 – Prince Sergey Golitsyn (1774-1859) #1868 – Prince

Pavel Gagarin Prince Pavel Pavlovich Gagarin (russian: Павел Павлович Гагарин; 4 (15) March 1789 in Moscow – 21 February (4 March) 1872 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian statesman from the Rurikid Gagarin family. He was the posthumous chi ...

(1789-1872) #1906 – Count

Dmitri Solsky Count Dmitri Martynovich Solsky (russian: Дмитрий Мартынович Сольский; –) was an Russian Empire, Imperial Russian politician. He served in the position of Imperial State Controller (an Imperial Minister equivalent) in 18 ...

(1833-1910) #1916 –

Ivan Goremykin Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (russian: Ива́н Лóггинович Горемы́кин, Iván Lógginovich Goremýkin) (8 November 183924 December 1917) was a Russian politician who served as the prime minister of the Russian Empire in 1906 a ...

(1839-1917)

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Active Privy Councillor Active Privy Councillor (russian: действительный тайный советник, deystvitelnyi taynyi sovetnik) was the civil rank (ru: чин / chin) in the Russian Empire, according to the Table of Ranks introduced by Peter the Great ...

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Active Privy Councillor, 1st class

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— Titles in Russia Civil ranks of the Russian Empire

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Active Privy Councillor, 1st class

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