This is a list of the Ministers of National Enlightenment of 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. ...
, also translated as Ministers of National Education. The Minister was at the head of the
Ministry of National Enlightenment (also translated as Ministry of National Education).
From 24 October 1817 to 15 May 1824, the ministry was part of the
Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education, also translated as Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and National Enlightenment.
List of Ministers
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Pyotr Zavadobskiy, 8 September 1802 – 11 April 1810
* Count
Aleksey Razumovskiy, 11 April 1810 – 10 August 1816
* Prince Aleksandr
Golitsin, 10 August 1816 – 15 May 1824
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Aleksandr Shishkov, 15 May 1824 – 25 April 1828
* Prince
Carl Christoph von Lieven, 25 April 1828 – 18 March 1833
* Count
Sergey Uvarov
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, 21 March 1833 – 20 October 1849
* Prince
Platon Shirinsky-Shikhmatov
Prince Platon Alexandrovich Shirinsky-Shikhmatov (russian: Платон Александрович Ширинский-Шихматов; 1790–1853) was Nicholas I's deputy education minister (1842–50) and education minister (1850–53) who spe ...
, 20 October 1849 – 7 April 1853
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Avraam Norov
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, 7 April 1853 – 23 March 1858
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Evgraf Kovalevskiy, 23 March 1858 – 28 June 1861
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Yevfimiy Putyatin
Yevfimiy Vasilyevich Putyatin (russian: Евфи́мий Васи́льевич Путя́тин; November 8, 1803 – October 16, 1883), also known as was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy. His diplomatic mission to Japan r ...
, 28 June 1861 – 25 December 1861
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Alexandr Golovnin, 25 December 1861 – 14 April 1866
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Dmitry Tolstoy
Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy (russian: Дми́трий Андре́евич Толсто́й; , Moscow – , Saint Petersburg) was a Russian statesman, a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia (1866). He belonged to the comital b ...
, 14 April 1866 – 24 April 1880
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Andrey Saburov, 24 April 1880 – 24 March 1881
* Baron
Aleksandr Nicolai, 24 March 1881 – 16 March 1882
* Count
Ivan Delyanov, 16 March 1882 – 29 December 1897
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Nikolay Bogolepov, 12 February 1898 – 2 March 1901
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Pyotr Vannovsky
Pyotr Semyonovich Vannovsky (russian: Пётр Семёнович Ванновский, translit=Pëtr Semënovič Vannovskij; Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution reform, Russian (before 1918): Пётръ Семёновичъ В ...
, 24 March 1901 – 11 April 1902
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Grigoriy Zenger Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy are Russian masculine given names.
It may refer to watcher angels or more specifically to the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels.
Grigory
* Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist
* Grigory Barenblatt (1927201 ...
, 11 April 1902 – 23 January 1904
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Vladimir Glazov, 10 April 1904 – 18 October 1905
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Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy, 31 October 1905 – 24 April 1906
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Pyotr Kaufman, 24 April 1906 – 1 January 1908
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Aleksand Shvarts, 1 January 1908 – 25 September 1910
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Lev Kasso
Lev Aristidovich Kasso (1865–1914) was an Imperial Russian politician. A Professor of Civil Law by education, he served as Imperial Minister of Education from 1910 through 1914 in the Stolypin and Kokovtsov governments.
The state's unive ...
, 25 September 1910 – 26 November 1914
* Count
Pavel Ignatieff
Count Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatiev (russian: Павел Николаевич Игнатьев, sometimes rendered in English as Paul Ignatieff; June 30/July 12, 1870 – August 12, 1945) was an Imperial Russian politician who served as Educatio ...
, 9 January 1915 – 27 December 1916
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Nikolai Kulchitsky
Nikolai Konstantinovich Kulchitsky (russian: Николай Константинович Кульчицкий; 16 January 1856, Kronstadt – 30 January 1925, Oxford) was a Russian anatomist and histologist, the last Minister of Education of the R ...
, 27 December 1916 – 28 February 1917
See also
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Ministry of National Education (Russian Empire)
The Ministry of National Education (russian: Министерство народного просвещения Российской империи), also translated as Ministry of National Enlightenment, was a government ministry in the Russian E ...
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Russian Council of Ministers The Russian Council of Ministers is an executive governmental council that brings together the principal officers of the Executive Branch of the Russian government. This includes the chairman of the government and ministers of federal government de ...
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Russian Provisional Government
The Russian Provisional Government ( rus, Временное правительство России, Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii) was a provisional government of the Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately ...
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