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

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

, according to the

Table of Ranks The Table of Ranks () was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia. Peter I of Russia, Peter the Great introduced the system in 1722 while engaged in a struggle with the existing hereditary ...

introduced by

Peter the Great Peter I (, ; – ), better known as Peter the Great, was the Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia, Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of Russia, Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned j ...

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 ''Generalfeldmarschall'' (; from Old High German ''marahscalc'', "marshal, stable master, groom"; ; often abbreviated to ''Feldmarschall'') was a rank in the armies of several German states and the Holy Roman Empire, (''Reichsgeneralfeldmarscha ...

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 Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin (; ) was an influential Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great for the first 18 years of her reign (1762–1780). In that role, he advocated the Northern Alliance, closer ties with Frederick the ...

(1718-1783) #1796 – Prince Alexander Bezborodko (1747-1799), from 1797 - Chancellor #1801 – Count

Alexander Vorontsov Count Alexander Romanovich Vorontsov () (4 February 17412 December 1805) was the Chancellor of the Russian Empire during the early years of Alexander I of Russia, Alexander I's reign. He began his career at the age of fifteen in the Izmailovsky ...

(1741-1805), from 1802 - Chancellor #1807 – Prince

Alexander Kurakin Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin, sometimes spelled ''Kourakine'' (; 18 January 1752 – Weimar, 6 / 24 June 1818) was a Russian statesman and diplomat, a member of the State Council (from 1810), who was ranked Active Privy Counsellor 1st Cl ...

(1752-1818) #1811 – Count

Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov (Russian language, Russian: Александр Сергеевич Строганов; 3 January 1733 – 27 September 1811) was a Russian aristocrat and a member of the Stroganov family. He was an assistant to ...

(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

Prince Pavel Pavlovich Gagarin (; 4 (15 ...

(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 Active Privy Councillor (, deystvitelnyi taynyi sovetnik) was the civil rank (ru: чин / chin) in the Russian Empire, according to the Table of Ranks introduced by Peter the Great in 1722. That was a civil rank of the 2nd class and equal to those ...

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— Titles in Russia Civil ranks of the Russian Empire

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Active Privy Councillor, 1st class

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