List of heads of the military of Imperial Russia
College of War
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College of WarThe Russian College of War (or War Collegium) was created in the course of Government reform of Peter I 11 December 1717.
Presidents
Vice-Presidents
Ministry of Land Forces
Collegiums were replaced by Ministries as part of the Government reform of Alexander I.
Ministry of War
On 17 December 1815 the Ministry of Land Forces was renamed to the Ministry of War.
Ministry of Sea Forces
- Count Nikolay Mordvinov 8 September 1802 – 28 December 1802
- Pavel Chichagov 31 December 1802 – 28 November 1811
- Ivan de Traverse 28 November 1811 – 17 December 1815
Ministry of the Navy
On 17 December 1815 the Ministry of Sea Forces was renamed, becoming the Ministry of the Navy.
- Ivan de Traverse 17 December 1815 – 24 March 1828
- Anton Moller 24 March 1828 – 5 February 1836
- Prince Aleksandr Menshikov 5 February 1836 – 23 February 1855
- Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel 18 May 1855 – 27 July 1857
- Nikolay Metlin 27 July 1857 – 18 September 1860
- Nikolay Karlovich Krabbe 19 September 1860 – 3 January 1876
- Stepan Lesovskiy 12 January 1876 – 23 June 1880
- Aleksey Peschurov 23 June 1880 – 11 January 1882
- Ivan Shestakov 11 January 1882 – 21 November 1888
- Nikolay Chikhachyov 28 November 1888 – 13 July 1896
- Pyotr Tyrtov 13 July 1896 – 4 March 1903
- Fyodor Avelan 10 March 1903 – 29 June 1905
- Aleksey Birilyov 29 June 1905 – 11 January 1907
- Ivan Dikov 11 January 1907 – 8 January 1909
- Stepan Voevodskiy 8 January 1909 – 18 March 1911
- Ivan Grigorovich 19 March 1911 – 28 February 1917
- Alexander Guchkov 1 March 1917 – 30 April 1917
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