| Chair | Abdulhamid II. | Alexander II. |
| Prime Minister / Grand Vizier | Ibrahim Edhem Pasha | Alexander Gorchakov |
| Minister of War | Redif Pasha | Dmitry Milyutin |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Saffet Pasha | Nikolai Girs |
| Religious Leader | Hassan Hayrullah Efendi | Metropolitan Isidore |
| Minister of Interior Affairs | Ahmed Esad Pasha | Konstantin Pobedonostsev |
| Naval Commander | Bozcaadalı Hasan Hüsnü Pasha | Stepan Makarov |
| Strategist / Duke | Hüseyin Avni Pasha | Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (Jr.) |
| Front Commander | Osman Nuri Pasha | Eduard Totleben |
| Chief of Intelligence | Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha | Pyotr Rachkovsky |
