1799 in Russia
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The following article lists events that happened during the year 1799 in Russia.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- War of the Second Coalition - Featured Alexander Suvoruv's campaigns in Italy and Switzerland (see Campaigns of 1799 in the French Revolutionary Wars).
- March 3 - Siege of Corfu (1798–1799) ends with Corfu's surrender.
- Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799
- April 27 - Battle of Cassano (1799)
- May 12 - Battle of Bassignana (1799)
- May 16 - First Battle of Marengo (1799)
- June 17–19 - Battle of Trebbia (1799)
- August 15 - Battle of Novi (1799)
- September 24–26 - Battle of Gotthard Pass
- September 25–26 - Second Battle of Zurich
- August 27 - November 19 - Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland
- September 19 - Battle of Bergen (1799)
- October 2 - Battle of Alkmaar (1799)
- October 6 - Battle of Castricum
- October 18 - Convention of Alkmaar[2]
- July 8 - Ukase of 1799 founding Russian-American Company and delineating Russian claims.
Births
[edit]- Dmitry Bagration-Imeretinsky - member of former Georgian royal family, general (d. 1845)
- Avdotia Istomina - ballerina (d. 1848)
- Pyotr Kakhovsky - army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1826)
- January 9 - Arvid Adolf Etholén, navy officer, explorer, and official of the Russian-American Company (d. 1876)
- January 17 - Adolph Theodor Kupffer, Baltic German chemist and physicist (d. 1865)
- March 1 - Alexey Verstovsky, composer (d. 1862)
- May 8 - Konstantin Igelström, army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1851)
- May 26 – Alexander Pushkin - poet, playwright, and novelist (d. 1837)[3]
- June 8 - Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Russo-German aristocrat (d. 1866)
- June 10 - Fyodor Bruni, artist (d. 1875)
- August 1 - Countess of Ségur, Franco-Russian writer (d. 1874)
- September 13 - Mikhail Lavrov, admiral and Arctic explorer (d. 1882)
- December 12 - Karl Bryullov, painter (d. 1852)
Deaths
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- Maria Zubova, poet, composer, and singer (b. 1749?)
- January 6 - Alexander Ivanovich Shilov, one of the founders of the Skoptsy sect (b. unknown)
- January 13 - Ivan Ivanovich Belsky, painter (b. 1719)
- April 6 - Alexander Bezborodko, statesman (b. 1747)
- May - Joasaph Bolotov, missionary and bishop of Kodiak (b. 1761)
- May 19 - N. P. Osipov, writer, poet, and translator (b. 1751)
- August 2 - Vasily Bazhenov, architect (b. 1737 or 1738)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Paul | emperor of Russia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ↑ "Landing of British troops on the Texel, Holland, 27 August 1799 | Online Collection | National Army Museum, London". collection.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ↑ Kahn, Andrew (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin. Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN 9781139827416.
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