The car fleet of the last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II in 1913 had 29 vehicles and in 1917 there were 46. Emperror's main car was a French Delaunay-Belleville SMT. Photo: Nikolai II in Crimea
© Fotokhronika TASS/reproduction Since Vladimir Lenin became the leader of the Soviet Russia, he had a Turcat-Mery 28, a Delaunay-Belleville-45 and a Renault-40 CV. In the 1920's Lenin used a Rolls Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost and the only Rolls Royce-based sledge-car in the world
© Fotokhronika TASS/Oleg Kuzmin Another leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, preferred the American Packard Twelve. Since 1949 Stalin drove an armored vehicle produced at the Stalin Car-Making Plant - ZIS-115 (ZIS-110S)
© AP Photo Other Soviet leaders used mostly domestically produced cars. Nikita Khrushchev was driven in a ZIL-111 or a ZIL-111B (convertible). Photo: Nikita Khrushchev in Berlin, 1960
© AP Photo Leonid Brezhnev (leader of the USSR 1964-1982) first used a hand-assembled ZIL-114 (photo) and from 1976 to 1982 he was driven in a ZIL-4104 (Zil-115)
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valentin Sobolev The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev also used a ZIL-4104 (Zil-115). He had up to 20 of those on each of his foreign visits. This required seven Il-76 transport planes
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Lizunov Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin changed to an armoured ZIL-4105 when he became president in 1991. Later he changed it to a Mercedes S500 Pullman Guard (W140)
© ITAR-TASS/Grigory Avanyan Russian current President Vladimir Putin is driven in a Mercedes S600 Pullman Guard (W-221)
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Metzel Johan F. Kennedy (US president 1961-1963) used a Lincoln Continental. At the time of the assasination in Dallas, Texas, he was in a convertible Lincoln Continental SS-100-Х
© EPA/TANNEN MAURY Chinese leader Mao Zedong had a ZIS-110 which he got as a present from Joseph Stalin in 1949. In 1958 he changed to a domestically produced FAW Hong
© bestcars.uol.com.br Uruguay's acting President Jose Alberto Mujica spends up to 90% of his income on charity and his most expensive belonging is a VW Bettle made in 1987
© AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico US President Barack Obama is transported in the armoured Cadillac One (Cadillac Presidential Limousine) also known as The Beast. His motorcade counts up to 40 vehicles transported on three Boeing С-17 Globemaster military transport planes
© Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Brithish Queen Elizabeth sticks to the Bentley State Limousine, created in two copies specially for her in 2002
© AP Photo/Franka Bruns British Prime Minister David Cameron uses a Jaguar XJ X351. Photo: Cameron's car damaged in a road accident
© AP Photo/Jon Super French President Francois Hollande changed an armoured Renault Vel Satis to a Citroen
© EPA/YOAN VOLAT German Chancellor Angela Merkel drives an armoured Audi A8 L Security. She also has a BMW 760 Li E67 and a Mercedes-Benz S600 Guard V221 at her disposal
© EPA/JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE Spain's new King Felipe prefers a Rolls Royce
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