The following were chairmen of the State Council of Imperial Russia.

1810–1906 Concurrently chairmen of the Committee of Ministers to 1865. Name Portrait PeriodCountNikolay Rumyantsev1 January 1810 – March 1812PrinceNikolay Saltykov29 March 1812 – 16 May 1816PrincePyotr Lopukhin25 May 1816 – 6 April 1827 †PrinceViktor Kochubey29 April 1827 – 3 June 1834 †CountNikolay Novosiltsev11 July 1834 – 8 April 1838 †PrinceIllarion Vasilchikov9 April 1838 – 21 February 1847CountVasily Levashov31 December 1847 – 23 September 1848PrinceAlexander Chernyshyov1 December 1848 – 5 April 1856PrinceAlexey OrlovMay 1857 – January 1861CountDmitry Bludov12 November 1861 – 19 February 1864 †PrincePavel Gagarin24 February 1864 – 1 January 1865Grand DukeKonstantin Nikolayevich1 January 1865 – 13 July 1881Grand DukeMikhail Nikolayevich13 July 1881 – 23 August 1905CountDmitri Solsky23 August 1905 – 9 May 1906

1906–1917 Name Portrait PeriodEduard Frisch20 May 1906 – 31 March 1907 †Mikhail Akimov10 April 1907 – 28 June 1914Sergey Manukhin28 June – 11 August 1914ActingIvan Golubev11 August 1914 – 15 July 1915ActingAnatoly Kulomzin15 July 1915 — 1 January 1917Ivan Shcheglovitov1 January – 1 March 1917