– 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 Theodor Avellan 10 March 1903 – 29 June 1905 Aleksei Birilev 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 See also List of heads of the military of post-imperial Russia Military history of the Russian Empire Council of Ministers of Russia Russian Provisional Government External links Ministers of Imperial Russia Military ministers Naval ministers