Famous politicians of Russia (list)

Who are the politicians? They are people engaged in political activities on a professional level. They hold tremendous power in their hands. Many of them fall into this field accidentally or due to some circumstances. Such figures, over time, begin to occupy a certain niche in governing the country. However, there are people who are politicians from God. They are endowed with a special set of personal characteristics, as well as charisma, so the masses themselves choose them as their leaders, entrust their destinies in their hands and are ready to follow them to the end. Further in the article, we will list several lists, which will include the political figures of Russia, which are included in the history.

XVI-XVII century

Until the 16th century, Rus was fragmented among the princes, and each of them can be safely called the political and state leader of his time. In addition, the country for quite a long time was under the yoke of foreign invaders. At the beginning of the 17th century people emerged from the people who decided to raise the people to fight against the "invaders." And now, the leaders of these national liberation movements are the first political figures in Russia. Let us give the names of some of them.

• Kuzma Minin. Unfortunately, there is no exact date of his birth in the annals, however it was in the second half of the 16th century. He is a national hero and organizer of the national liberation struggle.
• Prince Dmitry Pozharsky (1578-1642) - a friend of Minin in the organization of the Zemsky militia. A monument to these two figures flaunts on Red Square.
• But the leader of the Peasants' War of 1670-1671, Stepan Razin (1630-1671), the Cossack ataman raised the popular masses against the tsarist authorities. Here is an example of a medieval Russian oppositionist.

Political figures of the 19th century Russia

During the reign of Peter the Great, his daughter Elizabeth and the niece of Anna Ioannovna, as well as Catherine II and her son Pavel the First, many prominent people appeared in the state. All these politicians of Russia have contributed to the development of their country.

The first in the list of the most significant persons, perhaps, should be the name of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. As one of the country's largest military commanders, he did not lose a single battle.

Prince Dmitry Golitsyn (1734-1803), a well-known diplomat and scholar, defended the interests of Russia in France and Holland. He led a friendship with the French Enlightenment, for example with Voltaire.

Favorites of Catherine II

It's no secret that Catherine the Great came to power as a result of the palace coup. One of its organizers was the associate of the future empress - Alexei Orlov (1737-1807). In addition to him during the reign of this queen there were other politicians of Russia, who became such, thanks to the benevolence of the ruler of the state. Their names are Grigory Potemkin, Sergei Saltykov, Mikhail Miloradovich, Grigory Orlov, Alexander Ermolov, Alexander Lanskoy, Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov, Petr Zavodovsky and others. It is difficult to list all the favorites of Catherine II, but almost every one of them had some influence on politics Country in a certain period of time.

The First Revolutionaries

During the reign of the aforementioned tsarina, one of the most enlightened minds of the time was Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev (1749-1802). Progressive and revolutionary thinking, he was ahead of his time, advocating the abolition of serfdom in the country. Followers of his ideas were: Russian revolutionary Nikolai Ogaryov (1813-1877), poet and publicist, as well as his closest friend Herzen and Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) - anarchist theorist who was a participant in the French, German and Czech revolutions of 1848-1849 .
Their "opponent" can be called Alexei Arakcheev (1769-1834) - the all-powerful temporary king of Alexander I.

In the list of prominent political figures of the 19th century, one can not help calling Sergei Witte (1849-1915). His contribution to the development of the state can not be compared with anything. We can say that thanks to his innovative ideas, the country has made a big leap forward.

The beginning of the 20th century (pre-revolutionary period)

With the advent of the twentieth century in Russia, a lot of parties emerged in the political arena: the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks, the Octobrists, the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Social Democrats, the Narodniks, etc. Naturally, the leaders of each of them can be safely put on the list of "Political figures of Russia of the 20th century (beginning) ".

Among them, Georgy Plekhanov (1856-1918), one of the leaders of Menshevism, was the most outstanding person. In the years of the revolution of 1905-1907. He led an active struggle against the tactics and strategy of the Bolsheviks. Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970), who is known for being chosen as the head of the provisional government after the bourgeois revolution, was, in his political views, an SR. Another prominent Russian politician was Pavel Milyukov (1859-1943). He was chairman of the KDPR, which was one of the leading liberal-monarchist parties in the country. To the ardent monarchists also belonged a large landowner and politician Peter Stolypin. Admiral Kolchak (1873-1920) - commander of the Black Sea Fleet during the First World War in the post-revolutionary period was distinguished by counter-revolutionary views. The same can be said of Baron Wrangel (1878-1928) and Anton Denikin. In the war years they were leading the White Guard army. But in the south of Russia counter-revolutionary forces were ruled by Nestor Makhno (1889-1934), or, as he was called among the people, Father Makhno. On his account, not one terrorist action. He was attached to the party of anarchists.

Leaders of the Soviet government

These famous politicians of Russia for 73 years were considered heroes. Legends were written about their lives, novels were written, their names were cities, factories and schools, Komsomol and Pioneer detachments. These are the leaders of the Bolsheviks, and later of the Communist Party of the USSR.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov). Born in 1870, died in 1924 as a result of a terrorist act. A scientist, a revolutionary, a well-known politician. After the October Revolution, he was recognized as the leader of the peoples who were part of the USSR - a country created on his recommendation.

The companion of Lenin and one of the outstanding revolutionary Bolsheviks was Mikhail Kalinin (1875-1946). In 1923 he was elected chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

Iron Felix - the famous Chekist Dzerzhinsky, about the cruelty of which recently heard many. He was one of the most ideological revolutionaries, although he came from a noble family. Almost from the very first days of the creation of the USSR, he began to rule the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.

Leon Trotsky (real name Bronstein) is also an outstanding revolutionary figure in the Soviet Union. However, after Lenin's death, he began to criticize the Soviet leadership, especially Stalin, for which he was expelled from the country. After long wanderings through Europe, he settled in Mexico, where he began to write a book about Joseph Dzhugashvili, the new leader of the Soviet people. It was Stalin who ordered Trotsky's liquidation. He died in 1940 as a result of an attempt.

General Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee

Who can be more famous in the Land of Soviets than politicians of the USSR and Russia (after the collapse of the Union). Among them the leading position is occupied by the first secretaries of the pariah. Below are their full list.

• Joseph V. Stalin (Dzhugashvili). He headed the post of leader of the KP after Lenin's death. Today his name is associated with the brutal repression of more than two million innocent Soviet citizens, and the fault of all this was the pathological suspiciousness of the Soviet leader.
• Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971). Since 1953 he was elected first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. With the beginning of his reign, the "thaw" period began. Many repressed citizens in the camps were released and rehabilitated. However, he remembered the world thanks to his eccentric antics in the UN Assembly Hall, striking his shoe on the podium.
• Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982). His epoch was marked by the prosperity of corruption and bribery.
• Yuri Andropov (1914-1984). This seemingly quiet and unremarkable person, before becoming the first secretary of the KP, directed the KGB of the USSR, which testifies to his remarkable mind and special preparation. After the death of Brezhnev, he was appointed to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of the country. However, on this post he stayed not so long, only 2 years.
• The next secretary of the Central Committee, Konstantin Chernenko, also briefly led the Communist Party of the USSR, only a year. About his activities few people today can remember.
• And, finally, the last secretary of the CPSU Central Committee - Mikhail Gorbachev. He also became the first president of the Soviet Union. The attitude towards him in the people was ambiguous. Perestroika, glasnost, disintegration of the USSR, inter-regional conflicts, the collapse of the commonwealth of the Warsaw Pact countries, the fall of the Berlin Wall, etc., are associated with his name.

Political figures of modern Russia

At the beginning of this list, of course, are the names of people who were at the source of the creation of a new Russian state. And the first among them is Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. He was a communist in the past, but he also became the leader of an independent Russian state and the first popularly elected president of the Russian Federation. In 2000, for health reasons, he was forced to resign.

After Yeltsin's departure from the political arena, his duties were temporarily entrusted to the unknown young Petersburger V. Putin. However, today no politicians of Russia in the 21st century can compete with him in popularity among the people. He was twice elected president of a great power and after the second term he transferred the reins of government to his compatriot Dmitry Medvedev, taking over the post of prime minister. However, after the first term, Medvedev returned the "presidential rod" to Putin, and he himself took the chair of the prime minister. In a word, Vladimir Vladimirovich took the third place as president of the largest state in the world.

Leaders of political parties in Russia

As in the late 19th century, in the 90s of the 20th century, many political parties appeared in the Russian state, among which United Russia, Yabloko, LDPR, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and others are the largest. Their leaders, respectively, are V. Putin and D. Medvedev, G. Yavlinsky, V. Zhirinovsky, G. Zyuganov.

Instead of concluding

Of course, the above lists of prominent Russian political figures can not be called complete. Over the centuries they were much more numerous. However, the names of politicians who are included in them can be called the most significant.