1797 in Russia

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The manifesto of three-day corvee.

Events from the year 1797 in Russia

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchPaul I[1]

Events[]

  • Third Partition of Poland
  • Pauline Laws - house laws of the House of Romanov established
  • April 5 – Manifesto of three-day corvee[2]
  • Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria
  • Herzen University founded
  • Saint Petersburg Theological Academy founded

Births[]

  • Alexander Bestuzhev, Decembrist, writer (d. 1837)
  • Dimitri Ivanovich Dolgorukov, diplomat and travelling companion of Washington Irving (d. 1867)
  • Yelizaveta Golitsyna, noblewoman, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1844)
  • Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. (d. 1879)[3]
  • Alexander Kazarsky, naval officer, war hero (d. 1833)
  • Nikolay Dmitrievich Mylnikov, portrait painter (d. 1842)
  • Arsena Odzelashvili, Georgian outlaw, (d. 1842)
  • Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. (d. 1882)[4]

Deaths[]

  • Ivan Chernyshyov, diplomat and admiralty official (b. 1726)
  • Ekaterina Kniazhnina, poet (b. 1746)
  • Pyotr Melissino, General of the Artillery (b. 1726)
  • Vasily Pashkevich, composer, singer, violinist, teacher (b. circa 1742)
  • Alexei Senyavin, admiral (b. 1716)
  • Ivan Shuvalov, first Russian Minister of Education (b. 1727)

References[]

  1. ^ "Paul | emperor of Russia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  2. ^ Kubijovyc, Volodymyr (1984). Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume I: A-F plus Map and Gazetteer. University of Toronto Press. p. 94. ISBN 9781442651173.
  3. ^ "Saint Innocent Veniaminov". ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Fyodor Petrovich, Count (Graf) Litke RUSSIAN POLAR EXPLORER". ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. Archived from the original on 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2020-04-02.

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