Sergei Rachmaninoff | Sergei Prokofiev | Sergei Eisenstein | Sergei Parajanov | Sergei Diaghilev | Sergei Witte | Sergei Ivanov | Sergei Ivanovich Osipov | Sergei Bondarchuk | Sergei Bagapsh | Ivan Sergei | Sergei Yefimovich Zakharov | Sergei Polusmiak | Sergei Osipov | Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia | Sergei Zimin | Sergei Ordzhonikidze | Sergei Kurzanov | Sergei Babayan | Sergei Yursky | Sergei Tretyakov | Sergei Sychyov | Sergei Stadler | Sergei Skripka | Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha | Sergei Pavlenko | Sergei Lyapunov | Sergei Gusev | Sergei Gukov | Sergei Gonchar |
After Shirinsky-Shikhmatov the commission's presidents included Avraam Norov (1850-69), Vladimir Titov (1871-91), Sergei Platonov (1918-29), Nikolay Likhachov (1929), and Mikhail Pokrovsky (1930-32).