We describe the synthesis and investigations of Pb 2 MnReO 6 in perovskite and pyrochlore modifications. Both the modifications are formed at atmospheric pressure, the perovskite (I) at 550°C and the pyrochlore (II) at 600°C. Rietveld refinements of the structures using the powder XRD data show that oxide I adopts the monoclinic (P2 1 /n) double perovskite structure with partial ordering (∼72%) of Mn II /Re VI at the octahedral sites, while oxide II crystallizes in a defect-pyrochlore structure where Mn II /Re VI are disordered at the octahedral sites. The frustrated cation sublattice precludes a long-range ordering of Mn/Re in the pyrochlore structure. I is a semiconductor showing evidence for a ferrimagnetic ordering at T c ∼ 100 K, but the small saturation magnetic moment (〈S〉 ) 0.81) and the divergence between FC and ZFC magnetization data are consistent with spin-glass-like behavior and a partially ordered Mn/Re in the double perovskite structure. On the other hand, both the Curie-Weiss paramagnetism down to ∼5 K and non-Arrhenius electrical resistivity behavior of II suggest a spin-liquid/spin-glass ground state that is consistent with the frustrated cation sublattice of the pyrochlore structure.