1806 in Russia

Events from the year 1806 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander I

Events

Battle of Pułtusk, 1806

• War of the Third Coalition ends
• Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
  • February 20: Death of Russian commander Pavel Tsitsianov
  • October 6: Capture of Baku
• War of the Fourth Coalition begins
  • December 23: Battle of Czarnowo
  • December 26: Battle of Pułtusk
  • December 26: Battle of Golymin
• Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) begins in December
• August 1806: First Russian circumnavigation of the earth completed
• Alexander I Palace (Taganrog) built
• St Petersburg College for the Deaf founded
• Saint-Petersburg Elizabethan Institute founded.

Births

Olga Alexandrovna Orlova (1829)

• Levko Borovykovsky, Ukrainian poet, translator, and folklorist (d. 1889)
• Alecu Donici, Moldavian poet and translator (b. 1865)
• Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexandrovna of Russia, child of Alexander I (d. 1808)
• Georg Albert Fuss, astronomer (d. 1854)
• Josef Gusikov, Belarusian-Jewish klezmer musician (d. 1837)
• Lionel Kieseritzky, Baltic German chess master and theoretician (d. 1853)
• Ivan Kireyevsky, literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
• Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, vice admiral (d. 1854)
• Alexander Koshelev, writer, journalist, and public official (d. 1883)
• Ismayil bek Kutkashensky, Armenian major general in the Russian army and writer (d. 1861)
• Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, painter (d. 1858)
• Ferdinand Minding, German-born mathematician (d. 1885)
• Pylyp Morachevskyi, Ukrainian poet and bible translator (d. 1879)
• Olga Alexandrovna Orlova, state lady of the court and numismatist (d. 1880)
• Osip Petrov, operatic bass-baritone (d. 1878)
• Dmitriy Vasilevich Polenov, archaeologist (d. 1878)
• Isaac Judah Loeb Rabinowitz, Lithuanian Jewish rabbi and scholar (d. 1851)
• Prince Alexey Saltykov, diplomat, artist, traveller (d. 1859)
• Stepan Shevyryov, literary historian and poet (d. 1864)
• Oleksa Storozhenko, writer, anthropologist, and playwright (d. 1874)
• Count Ivan Matveyevich Tolstoy, diplomat, senator, court official, minister of postal services (d. 1867)
• Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg, Baltic German novelist, poet, and painter (d. 1869)
• Yusuf bek Kurinski, last khan of Kura Khanate, major general (d. 1878)

Deaths

Peter Dolgorukov, circa 1800

• Peter Petrovich Dolgorukov, nobleman and general (b. 1777)
• Adam Laxman, military officer led 1791 expedition to Japan (b. 1766)
• Elena von Rehbinder, industrialist (b. 1744)
• Pavel Tsitsianov, Georgian noble, Russian army general (b. 1754)
• Count Sergey Yaguzhinsky, court official, officer, factory owner (b. 1731)

References

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