Editing List of Russian people (section)

===Statesmen of the Tsardom and Empire===
{{Main|Russian Prime Ministers|Russian Foreign Ministers|Russian Ministers of War}}

*[[Aleksey Arakcheyev]], Minister of War of Alexander I, organized [[military-agricultural colonies]][[File:Golytsin GIM.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Vasily Golitsyn]]]]
*[[Abram Gannibal]], general and military engineer of [[Black African]] origin, governor of [[Reval]], the great-grandfather of [[Alexander Pushkin]] and hero of his novel ''[[The Moor of Peter the Great]]''
*[[Vasily Golitsyn]], 17th-century commander of the Russian Army, Foreign Minister and a favourite of [[Tsarevna Sophia]], abolished [[mestnichestvo|rank priority]] in the military, concluded [[Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686]] with Poland, one of the most educated Russians of the time[[File:AM Gorchakov by Bogatsky crop.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Alexander Gorchakov]]]]
*[[Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin|Fyodor Golovin]], associate of Peter the Great, [[general admiral]], the first Russian [[field marshal]] and [[Chancellor]], the first Russian count and the first to receive the [[Order of St. Andrew]], negotiated the [[Treaty of Nerchinsk]] and the [[Treaty of Karlowitz]]
*[[Alexander Gorchakov]], Foreign Minister and Chancellor of Alexander II, a friend and rival of [[Otto von Bismarck]], denounced the [[Treaty of Paris (1856)]], advocated the [[League of the Three Emperors]]
*[[Ivan Goremykin]], twice the Prime Minister of Imperial Russia
[[File:A. Menshikov (Kuskovo).jpg|90px|thumb|[[Aleksandr Menshikov]]]]
*[[Alexander Kerensky]], second and the last Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government
*[[Franz Lefort]], tutor of Peter the Great, general and diplomat, oversaw the foundation of the [[Russian Navy]][[File:Ордин-Нащокин.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin]]]]
*[[Georgy Lvov]], first Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government
*[[Aleksandr Menshikov]], associate and friend of Peter the Great, de facto ruler of Russia for two years after Peter's death, [[generalissimus]], Prince, the first [[Governor of Saint Petersburg]]
*[[Pavel Milyukov]], founder of the [[Constitutional Democratic Party]], Foreign Minister in the Russian Provisional Government
*[[Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky]], governor of the East Siberia, coloniser of the [[Priamurye]] and [[Primorye]], concluded the [[Treaty of Aigun]] and the [[Treaty of Beijing (1860)]] with China
*[[Karl Nesselrode]], Foreign Minister of Alexander II and Nicholas I, a leading European conservative statesman of the [[Holy Alliance]]
*[[G. G. Orlov|Grigory Orlov]], favourite of Catherine the Great who enthroned her, progenitor of [[Bobrinsky]] family, founder of the [[Free Economic Society]], owner of the [[Orlov Diamond]][[File:Портрет Сперанского Михаила Михайловича.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Mikhail Speransky]]]]
*[[Konstantin Pobedonostsev]], tutor to Alexander III and [[Éminence grise]] of his imperial politics
*[[Grigory Potyomkin|Grigory Potyomkin-Tavrichesky]], favourite of Catherine II, conqueror and the first governor of [[Novorossiya]], founder of [[Sevastopol]] and [[Yekaterinoslav]]
*[[Grigori Rasputin]], [[mysticism|mystic]] and healer who influenced the latter politics of Nicholas II
*[[Kyrylo Rozumovskyi|Kirill Razumovsky]], last [[Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks]], the president of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]]
*[[Nikolay Rumyantsev]], Foreign Minister during the [[French invasion of Russia]], founder of the [[Rumyantsev Museum]]
*[[Ivan Serebrennikov]], Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian state
*[[Mikhail Speransky]], chief reformer during the reign of Alexander I, father of [[Russian liberalism]], oversaw the publication of the ''Full Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire''[[File:E. Vorontsova-Dashkova by Dm. Levitsky (1784, Hillwood).jpg|90px|thumb|[[Ekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova]]]]
*[[Pyotr Stolypin]], Interior Minister and then Prime Minister, put down the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]], initiated [[Stolypin reform]]
*[[Pyotr Vologodsky]], Minister of Supply of the Russian state
*[[Ekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova]], closest female friend of [[Catherine the Great]], a major figure of the Russian Enlightenment, a director of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences]] and the founder of [[Russian Academy]]
*[[Sergei Witte]], Finance Minister who later became the first [[Prime Minister of Russia]], presided over extensive [[industrialization]] of the country, and supervised the construction of the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]]