Active Privy Councillor, 1st class (, deystvitelnyi taynyi sovetnik pervogo klassa) was the civil position (class) in the

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, according to the

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introduced by

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

Chancellor Chancellor () is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the (lattice work screens) of a basilica (court hall), which separa ...

, General Field Marshal in the Army, and General Admiral in the Navy. The rank holder should be addressed as '' Your High Excellency'' (, 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

#1773 – Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718-1783) #1796 – Prince Alexander Bezborodko (1747-1799), from 1797 - Chancellor #1801 – Count Alexander Vorontsov (1741-1805), from 1802 - Chancellor #1807 – Prince Alexander Kurakin (1752-1818) #1811 – Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov (1733-1811) #1814 – Prince Pyotr Lopukhin (1753-1827) #1819 – Prince Andrey Razumovsky (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 (1789-1872) #1906 – Count Dmitri Solsky (1833-1910) #1916 –

Ivan Goremykin Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (; 8 November 183924 December 1917) was a Russian politician who served as the prime minister of the Russian Empire in 1906 and again from 1914 to 1916, during World War I. He was the last person to have the civil rank ...

(1839-1917)

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Active Privy Councillor, 1st class

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