Active Privy Councillor, 1st class


Active Privy Councillor, 1st class was the civil position in the Russian Empire, according to the Table of Ranks introduced by Peter the Great in 1722. That was a civil rank of the 1st class and equal to those of Chancellor, General Field Marshal in the Army, and General Admiral in the Navy. The rank holder should be addressed as Your High Excellency.

Overview

The rank was granted to those persons who, by virtue of their official positions, could not be called Chancellors. During the existence of the Russian Empire, 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

  1. 1773 – Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin
  2. 1796 – Prince Alexander Bezborodko, from 1797 - Chancellor
  3. 1801 – Count Alexander Vorontsov, from 1802 - Chancellor
  4. 1807 – Prince Alexander Kurakin
  5. 1811 – Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov
  6. 1814 – Prince Pyotr Lopukhin
  7. 1819 – Prince Andrey Razumovsky
  8. 1826 – Prince Alexei Borisovich Kurakin
  9. 1841 – Prince Alexander Golitsyn
  10. 1852 – Prince Sergey Golitsyn
  11. 1868 – Prince Pavel Gagarin
  12. 1906 – Count Dmitri Solsky
  13. 1916 – Ivan Goremykin