Today in Russia History (Part 4)
Sub-Topics: Chechnya - Dagestan - Kamchatka - Khabarovsk - Mordovia - Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Tatarstan - Volgograd
Historical Events
Results 301 - 400 of 878
1827-10-01 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1828-02-22 - Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
1828-04-26 - Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1828-08-27 - The Russians defeat the Turks at the Battle of Akhalzic.
1829-03-22 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1829-09-14 - Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
1829-09-24 - Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1829-11-20 - Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia
1830-09-14 - Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia
1830-11-29 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1830-12-20 - England, France, Prussia, Austria & Russia recognize Belgium
1831-02-20 - Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
1833-07-08 - Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty
1834-05-08 - Prussia, Austria & Russia sign classified accord about Belgium
1839-03-09 - Prussian govt limits work week for children to 51 hours
1840-07-15 - England, Russia, Austria & Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance
1845-08-06 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1848-04-06 - Jews of Prussia granted equality
1848-05-07 - Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1849-03-28 - Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate
1849-05-28 - Princess WFLC Marianne & Albrecht of Prussia separate
1849-06-21 - Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
1849-08-09 - Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
1849-11-16 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1850-11-29 - The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
1853-08-08 - Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki Japan
1854-03-28 - During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia
1854-09-20 - British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea
1854-11-05 - Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000
1855-03-02 - Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
1856-03-30 - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1856-04-18 - Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns
1856-04-29 - Peace between England & Russia
1857-09-23 - Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die
1858-01-25 - Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1858-06-29 - Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
1858-07-02 - Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
1860-06-12 - The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1861-02-19 - Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [NS=Mar 3]
1861-02-19 - Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
1861-02-27 - Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland
1861-02-27 - Warsaw Massacre: Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russia
1861-03-03 - Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [OS=Feb 19]
1861-03-03 - Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
1861-10-06 - Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
1862-07-01 - The Russian State Library is founded.
1862-11-11 - Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
1863-10-01 - 5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC
1864-02-01 - Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
1864-05-21 - Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1866-04-04 - Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev.
1866-04-08 - Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary.
1866-04-16 - Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1866-06-15 - Prussia attacks Austria
1866-06-24 - 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army
1866-08-17 - Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty
1866-08-23 - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1867-03-30 - US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly)
1867-10-18 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
1868-09-25 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1869-03-06 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1870-07-13 - King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depeche" on Bismarck
1870-07-19 - France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1870-08-06 - Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
1870-08-18 - Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties
1870-09-02 - Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
1871-01-28 - Paris surrenders to Prussians
1875-08-22 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1876-11-17 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
1877-04-24 - Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
1877-04-24 - Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1878-01-16 - Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1878-07-30 - Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1879-05-16 - Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
1880-02-17 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt
1881-02-24 - China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1881-04-27 - Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
1882-01-25 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
1882-04-13 - Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
1882-07-06 - 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine
1882-07-13 - 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1883-05-27 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1885-03-30 - The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1886-10-26 - Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia
1886-10-27 - Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
1887-06-18 - The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1888-03-20 - The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta was staged in Moscow, Russia.
1891-04-23 - Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
1892-02-03 - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
1892-08-17 - Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
1893-12-17 - Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France
1893-12-30 - Russia signs military accord with France
1894-01-04 - France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
1894-05-26 - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1894-11-01 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1895-05-07 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1895-06-29 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1896-05-18 - Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1896-05-26 - Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
1898-10-01 - Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia
Famous Birthdays
Results 301 - 400 of 1,187
1855-10-16 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
1855-10-28 - Ivan V Mitshurin, Russian botanist (new types of fruit)
1856-03-17 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1856-06-14 - Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
1856-08-20 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania) [NS Sept 1]
1856-09-01 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania)
1856-09-01 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1856-11-06 - Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia
1856-11-18 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
1856-11-25 - Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, Russia, composer (Oresteia)
1856-11-29 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia
1856-12-11 - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist
1857-06-06 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
1857-11-03 - Michail V Aleksejev, Russian general (WW I-chief of staff)
1857-11-03 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (d. 1918)
1858-02-26 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
1858-11-11 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
1858-12-11 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)
1858-12-23 - Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, playwright (Life in Russian Theater)
1859-02-04 - Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)
1859-03-16 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
1859-11-19 - Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
1859-12-15 - Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist (Esperanto)
1860-01-11 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian/French painter/author (Journal)
1860-01-29 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard)
1860-07-28 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1860-08-28 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [OS]
1860-08-30 - Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1860-09-11 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [NS]
1861-02-12 - Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott)
1861-07-29 - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16)
1861-10-29 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1861-11-23 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1861-12-19 - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton Engld, Russian-English translator
1862-01-23 - David Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician
1862-03-02 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
1862-04-14 - Pyotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11)
1862-05-19 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
1862-07-18 - Nikolaj N Yudenitcch, Russian general/counter-revolutionary
1862-07-18 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (d. 1933)
1862-12-14 - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [OS]
1862-12-26 - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [NS]
1863-01-15 - Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia)
1863-01-17 - Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russia, director (Stanislavski Method)
1863-02-17 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
1863-03-01 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)
1863-03-12 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (d. 1945)
1863-07-28 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1863-08-15 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)
1863-10-03 - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
1863-10-09 - Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1864-01-09 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
1864-01-10 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (d. 1931)
1864-03-13 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1864-06-25 - Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist (Nobel 1920)
1864-10-25 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
1865-04-23 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
1865-07-02 - Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)
1865-08-10 - Alexander K Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)
1865-12-19 - Hermann Hirt, Magdeburg Prussia, linguist (Indo-European Grammar)
1865-12-19 - Tikhon Toropets, Pskov Russia, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint
1866-02-16 - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [NS=Feb 28]
1866-02-24 - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
1866-02-28 - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16]
1866-03-14 - Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
1866-05-10 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)
1867-09-25 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1867-11-21 - Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian chemist
1868-03-28 - Maxim Gorki, [Aleksei Peshikov], Russia, writer (Mother) [3/16 OS]
1868-03-28 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1868-04-16 - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer
1868-04-28 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
1868-05-18 - Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
1868-08-07 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1869-01-22 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1869-02-23 - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)
1869-02-26 - Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
1869-04-05 - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
1869-05-05 - Hans Pfitzner, Russian-born composer (d. 1949)
1869-11-13 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian feminist (d. 1962)
1869-12-22 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1870-03-20 - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician (East Africa)
1870-04-14 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1870-05-04 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d. 1960)
1870-06-14 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (d. 1932)
1870-07-20 - Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian jurist/minister of Justice (1918-19)
1870-08-26 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7]
1870-08-30 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1870-09-07 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [OS=Aug 26]
1870-10-22 - Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933)
1871-03-04 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
1871-07-29 - [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk
1871-08-21 - Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)
1872-01-15 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
1872-01-24 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
1872-03-08 - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
1872-03-19 - Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
1872-03-31 - Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
1872-04-22 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
1872-06-06 - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
Famous Deaths
Results 301 - 400 of 731
1916-12-29 - Grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45
1917-02-13 - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48
1917-04-18 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
1917-09-03 - Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed
1917-12-08 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836)
1918-04-13 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1918-05-30 - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
1918-07-17 - Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50
1918-09-25 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1918-10-09 - Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60
1918-11-03 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
1919-01-01 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
1919-02-05 - Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher/writer, dies at 62
1919-02-16 - Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (b. 1893)
1919-05-21 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
1920-02-07 - Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed
1920-02-07 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
1920-11-08 - Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1921-01-02 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Ger chancellor/PM (Prussia), dies at 64
1921-02-08 - Pjotr A Kropotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist, dies at 78
1921-04-11 - Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
1921-08-07 - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40
1921-08-24 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
1922-02-24 - Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
1922-05-29 - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director, dies at 39
1922-06-28 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1922-07-20 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
1923-05-10 - Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
1923-06-26 - Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies
1923-11-26 - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60
1924-01-21 - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53
1924-05-08 - Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23
1924-05-25 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
1924-08-17 - Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26
1924-10-09 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1924-12-28 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
1925-03-23 - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76
1925-05-13 - Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies
1925-09-16 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
1925-12-27 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)
1926-02-02 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
1926-04-19 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1926-05-30 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1926-06-23 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1927-03-03 - Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
1927-05-28 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1927-11-17 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44
1927-12-14 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
1927-12-25 - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66
1928-04-07 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
1928-04-25 - Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49
1929-01-06 - Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72
1929-08-19 - Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
1930-04-04 - Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies
1930-04-17 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
1930-09-29 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1931-01-23 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies
1931-02-12 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855)
1931-07-15 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
1931-09-10 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1932-01-13 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
1932-05-01 - Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov
1932-07-05 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
1932-07-07 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1933-01-06 - Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist (b. 1848)
1933-03-29 - Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Dutch violinist/conductor, dies at 52
1933-10-05 - Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71
1933-10-05 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
1933-12-26 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (b. 1875)
1934-01-08 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
1934-05-11 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
1934-06-11 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
1934-09-12 - Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies
1935-01-28 - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, dies at 75
1935-06-07 - Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
1935-09-19 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
1936-02-27 - Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86
1936-06-18 - Maxim Gorki, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
1936-08-25 - Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies
1937-02-05 - Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at 75
1937-03-10 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
1937-09-10 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1938-03-13 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1938-04-12 - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man & Mark), dies at 65
1938-04-15 - Caesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46
1938-07-18 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
1938-07-29 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1938-08-07 - Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russian director (S Method), dies at 75
1938-08-25 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67
1938-09-24 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1938-11-19 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
1939-02-07 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1939-02-15 - Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1939-02-27 - Nadezjda K Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70
1939-05-11 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1940-03-10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1940-03-29 - Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(b. 1916)
1940-05-23 - Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
1940-08-21 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62
1940-08-21 - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68
