Today in Russia History (Part 3)
Sub-Topics: Chechnya - Dagestan - Kamchatka - Khabarovsk - Mordovia - Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Tatarstan - Volgograd
Historical Events
Results 201 - 300 of 878
1762-06-29 - Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II
1762-07-17 - Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
1763-02-15 - Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg
1763-09-01 - Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1767-10-04 - Prince Willem V marries Prussian princess Wilhelmina
1768-08-19 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1770-07-05 - Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
1770-07-06 - Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1772-02-17 - 1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria
1772-08-05 - 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
1774-07-21 - Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War)
1774-07-21 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
1775-03-19 - Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement
1776-10-07 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1778-07-03 - Prussia declares war on Austria
1783-04-08 - Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1783-07-24 - Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1784-01-06 - Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
1784-09-22 - Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
1785-04-21 - Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges
1785-09-10 - Prussia signs trade agreement with US
1787-08-10 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1787-09-13 - Prussian army moves into Netherlands
1787-09-17 - Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem
1787-10-01 - Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1787-10-10 - Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
1788-02-09 - Austria declares war on Russia
1788-04-15 - England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1788-06-11 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1788-07-17 - Russian fleet destroys Swedish
1788-08-13 - Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
1788-12-17 - Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov
1790-07-09 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1790-08-14 - Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela
1790-12-22 - Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1790-12-22 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1791-10-01 - Dutch prince Willem Frederik marries his niece princess Frederika Louise Wilhelmina of Prussia
1792-01-09 - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1792-02-07 - Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
1792-04-20 - France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
1792-05-19 - Russian army enters Poland
1792-07-08 - France declares war on Prussia
1792-07-11 - Prussia army moves into French territory
1792-09-20 - French defeat Prussians at Valmy
1793-01-21 - Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
1793-01-23 - 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
1793-02-11 - Prussian troops occupy Venlo Neth
1793-07-23 - The Prussians conquer Mayence.
1793-12-26 - The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
1794-07-13 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1794-11-09 - Russian troops occupy Warsaw
1795-03-05 - Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
1795-03-28 - Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
1795-10-24 - 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
1797-01-26 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty
1798-01-01 - Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books
1798-12-24 - Russia & England sign Second anti-French Coalition
1799-06-22 - England & Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic
1799-09-19 - English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver
1799-10-02 - Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands
1799-10-06 - Battle at Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats English/Russian army
1799-10-10 - Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs
1799-10-22 - Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition
1801-03-24 - Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1805-11-11 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1805-11-16 - Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French
1805-12-02 - Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
1806-01-30 - Prussia takes possession of Hanover
1806-10-09 - Prussia declares war on France.
1806-10-14 - Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians
1807-02-08 - Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
1807-06-14 - Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1807-07-07 - France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
1808-05-03 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808-09-13 - Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1809-03-29 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1809-09-17 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1811-02-02 - Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF
1812-03-11 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1812-03-15 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1812-06-12 - Napoleon invades Russia
1812-06-22 - Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia
1812-07-23 - Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I
1812-11-29 - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1812-12-12 - French invasion of Russia comes to an end.
1813-08-23 - Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
1813-08-30 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813-10-16 - Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria & Russia)
1814-09-05 - -15] Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia
1815-06-16 - Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia
1815-09-26 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign Holy Alliance
1815-11-20 - Russia, Prussia, Austria & England signs Great Alliance
1816-02-29 - Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna
1818-09-30 - Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France & England
1818-11-21 - Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1820-01-28 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
1824-04-17 - Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40'N
1825-02-22 - Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1825-05-21 - Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
1825-12-14 - Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
Famous Birthdays
Results 201 - 300 of 1,187
1818-11-09 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]
1819-12-18 - Yakov Petrovich Polonsky, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija)
1820-12-05 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892)
1821-03-23 - Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper)
1821-05-16 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
1821-06-04 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
1821-10-30 - Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Idiot) [NS=11/11]
1821-11-11 - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment)
1821-12-10 - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Russkije Zjenjshiny)
1822-02-13 - Lev A Mej, Russian nobleman/poet
1823-04-12 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers)
1823-09-26 - Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist (Denj, Moskvitsh)
1824-01-14 - Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
1824-02-19 - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator [NS=Mar 2]
1824-03-02 - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian theorist [NS]
1824-03-12 - Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
1824-07-20 - Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussia, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1824-08-08 - Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
1825-03-09 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
1825-06-24 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844)
1825-10-15 - Queen Marie of Prussia (d. 1889)
1826-01-15 - Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
1826-07-11 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
1827-01-02 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1827-01-21 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1827-08-28 - Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
1827-11-30 - Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer/senator
1828-07-12 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
1828-08-28 - Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [OS]
1828-09-09 - Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [NS]
1828-09-15 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1828-09-28 - Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism)
1829-11-16 - Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS]
1830-05-24 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)
1831-02-24 - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia
1831-10-18 - Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia
1832-04-08 - Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal
1832-12-27 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897)
1833-02-28 - Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-fieldmarshal
1833-11-12 - Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
1834-02-07 - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
1834-05-05 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
1837-01-02 - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
1837-05-27 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
1837-09-14 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
1838-03-15 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
1839-03-09 - Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov) [OS]
1839-08-10 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
1840-03-20 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
1840-04-25 - Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture) (5/7 NS)
1840-10-12 - Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian
1840-11-15 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [NS=11/27]
1840-11-21 - Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia
1840-11-27 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15]
1841-01-27 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1842-02-02 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927)
1842-02-04 - Vasili O Klyutshevski, Russian historian
1842-08-30 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1842-12-09 - Pjotr A Kopotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist
1843-09-29 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
1843-10-21 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor (Peter the Great)
1843-10-25 - Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author (Power of the Soil)
1843-10-26 - Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace)
1844-03-18 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
1844-06-06 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1845-02-26 - Alexander III, St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) (3/10 NS)
1845-03-10 - Alexander III A Romanov, Russian tsar (1881-94)
1845-03-10 - Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
1845-05-16 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)
1846-02-04 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
1846-05-30 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1847-03-31 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
1847-09-20 - Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary)
1847-11-26 - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1848-01-24 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
1848-03-29 - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War
1848-05-15 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)
1848-08-04 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1848-10-30 - Zinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian vice-admiral
1849-02-22 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
1849-06-29 - Sergei J Witte, Neth/Russ count/premier Russia
1849-09-14 - Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904)
1850-01-15 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
1850-01-17 - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, St Petersburg Russia, composer
1850-10-05 - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910)
1850-11-12 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
1851-09-03 - Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
1852-02-20 - Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov)
1852-12-04 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)
1852-12-19 - A[lbert] A Michelson, Strelno Prussia, US physicist (Nobel 1907)
1853-01-16 - Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
1853-07-27 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1853-08-19 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1853-08-28 - Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1853-10-17 - Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
1853-12-22 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)
1855-04-29 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS]
1855-05-10 - Anatoli Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) [NS]
1855-05-11 - Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake)
1855-09-01 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
Famous Deaths
Results 201 - 300 of 731
1875-10-10 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
1875-12-20 - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75
1877-01-09 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
1877-11-02 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
1877-12-27 - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56
1878-07-07 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1879-02-23 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
1881-01-25 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
1881-02-02 - Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59
1881-02-09 - Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1881-03-13 - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62
1881-03-16 - Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42
1882-05-29 - Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
1882-11-21 - Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist, dies at 35
1882-11-26 - Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies
1883-02-01 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies
1883-02-13 - Pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64
1883-05-29 - Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73
1884-04-04 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist and diarist (b. 1860)
1884-10-31 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
1886-06-14 - Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
1887-02-27 - Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53
1887-03-08 - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73
1887-03-20 - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73
1887-03-24 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
1888-03-24 - Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1888-06-15 - Frederik III NK van Hohenzollern, German Emperor/king of Prussia, dies
1888-11-01 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1889-01-27 - Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist, dies at 65
1889-02-26 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
1889-05-10 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
1889-10-17 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1889-12-12 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
1890-11-24 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
1891-02-10 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1891-04-24 - Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies
1891-05-08 - Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
1891-09-27 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
1892-12-03 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
1893-08-17 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52[NS=8/29]
1894-01-13 - Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
1894-03-12 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1894-11-01 - Aleksandr III A Romanov, czar of Russia (1881-94), dies at 49
1894-11-01 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
1894-11-20 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (Dmitri Donskoi), dies at 64
1894-11-27 - Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1894-12-08 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
1896-05-27 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1896-08-30 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1897-03-20 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1897-10-08 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1898-10-30 - Yakov Petrovich Polonsky Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78
1898-12-16 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
1900-05-05 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
1900-06-29 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1900-08-04 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
1901-08-05 - Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60
1902-04-08 - Sipyagain, Russian min of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
1902-07-14 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58
1903-06-11 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
1904-03-05 - Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71
1904-04-13 - Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies
1904-05-16 - N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
1904-07-15 - Anton Pavlovich Chechov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44
1904-07-28 - Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies
1905-02-13 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1905-11-08 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1906-01-13 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
1906-02-25 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44
1907-02-02 - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72
1907-03-23 - Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
1908-01-25 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
1908-06-21 - Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64
1908-11-20 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
1909-01-14 - Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60
1909-11-30 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 [NS=Dec 13]
1909-12-11 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
1909-12-13 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53 [OS 11/30]
1910-04-14 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
1910-05-29 - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73
1910-07-24 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1910-10-04 - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
1910-11-07 - Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS]
1910-11-20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 [NS]
1911-09-18 - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49
1913-01-04 - Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian general-field marshal, dies at 79
1914-08-15 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 [NS=Aug 28]
1914-08-29 - ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle
1914-08-30 - Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide
1915-01-28 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
1915-03-13 - Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65
1915-04-27 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
1915-05-21 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
1915-06-19 - Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
1916-01-15 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1916-03-19 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1916-05-17 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
1916-07-16 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1916-12-16 - Grigori Rasputin, a powerful Russian monk, murdered
1916-12-17 - Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated
