1792 in Russia

Sergiev Posad-monumento

Церковь Казанской Иконы Божией Матери, с. Великий Враг

Events from the year 1792 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Catherine II

Events

• Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) ^[1]
  • 9 January - Treaty of Jassy ends war

• Polish–Russian War of 1792
• 26 May - Battle of Opsa
• 11 June - Battle of Mir
• 14 June - Battle of Boruszkowce
• 18 June - Battle of Zieleńce
• 18 July - Battle of Dubienka

Births

• Archimandrite Photius (1792-1838) - religious leader ^[2]
• Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856) - mathematician
• Mikhail Pavlov (1792-1840) - academic, textbook writer
• Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (1792-1795) - daughter of Paul I of Russia
• Lev Perovski (1792-1856) - nobleman, administrator, and mineralogist
• Pyotr Pletnyov (1792-1866) - poet, literary critic, academic
• Natasha Rostova (b. 1792) - character in War and Peace
• Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792-1862) - writer, poet, composer, singer, salonist, and lady-in-waiting
• Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792-1878) - poet
• Alexander Ypsilantis (1792-1828) - Greek who rose to be a Russian major general

Deaths

• George Browne (1698-1792) - Irishman who became a Russian general and governor of Livonia
• Denis Fonvizin (1745-1792) - playwright of the Russian Enlightenment
• Gavriil Skorodumov (1755-1792) - engraver
• Mikhail Sushkov (1778-1792) - writer, suicide
• Elizaveta Vorontsova (1739-1792) - mistress of Peter III of Russia

References

1. Menchinger, Ethan L. (2017-08-10). The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif. Cambridge University Press. p. 157. doi:10.1017/9781108181990.009. ISBN   978-1-108-18199-0 . Retrieved 2025-11-17.
2. Wieczynski, Joseph L. (1971). "Apostle of Obscurantism: the Archimandrite Photius of Russia (1792–1838)". The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 22 (4): 319–331. doi:10.1017/S002204690005870X. ISSN   0022-0469 . Retrieved 2025-11-17.

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