Russian Chess Championship
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This is a list of the winners of the Russian Chess Championships played before World War I. Actually, those championships were named All-Russian Masters Tournaments.
- 1899 (1st) Mikhail Chigorin (Moscow)
- 1900/01 (2nd) Mikhail Chigorin (Moscow)
- 1903 (3rd) Mikhail Chigorin (Kiev)
- 1905/06 (4th) Gersz Salwe (Sankt Petersburg)
- 1907/08 (5th) Akiba Rubinstein (Lodz)
- 1909 (6th) Akiba Rubinstein (Vilna)
- 1912 (7th) Akiba Rubinstein (Vilna)
- 1913/14 (8th) Alexander Alekhine, Aron Nimzowitsch (Sankt Petersburg)
