1807 in Russia

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Events from the year 1807 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander I

Events

Battle of Athos 1807

• Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)

• War of the Fourth Coalition
  • February 3: Battle of Allenstein
  • February 7-8: Battle of Eylau
  • June 5-6: Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen
  • June 10: Battle of Heilsberg
  • June 14: Battle of Friedland
  • July 7 and 9: Treaties of Tilsit end war

• Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)
  • May 22: Battle of the Dardanelles
  • June 18: Battle of Arpachai
  • July 1-2: Battle of Athos

• Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812) begins
  • October 26: Russia declares war

• Lovers of the Russian Word
• Kalashnikov Concern

Births

Karolina Pavlova

• Vladimir Benediktov, poet and translator (d. 1873)
• Ignatius Brianchaninov, Russian Orthodox bishop, theologian, and saint (d. 1867)
• Pyotr Grigoryevich Demidov, nobleman and general (d. 1862)
• Alexey Galakhov, writer, educator, and literary historian (d. 1892)
• Karolina Pavlova, poet and novelist (d. 1893)
• Vladimir Pecherin, nihilist, poet, priest (d. 1885)
• Nikolay Yakovlevich Rosenberg, chief manager of the Russian-American Company 1850-1853 (d. 1857)
• Kozma Spassky-Avtonomov, geographer, studied and wrote about Baku (d. 1890)
• Nikolai Stepanov, artist, caricaturist, and editor (d. 1877)
• Vladimir Titov, writer, statesman, diplomat (d. 1891)
• Otto Moritz von Vegesack, Baltic German diplomat (d. 1874)
• Semen Zhivago, painter (d. 1863)

Deaths

Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1772, Dmitry Levitsky)

• Pavel Dashkov, engineer (b. 1763)
• Pyotr Glebov-Streshnev, general (b. 1773)
• Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn, diplomat, philanthropist, art collector (b. 1723)
• Mikhail Kheraskov, poet and playwright (b. 1733)
• Avdotya Mikhaylova, actress and opera singer (b. 1746)
• Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov, poet and writer (b. 1757)
• Aleksey Okhotnikov, soldier and lover of Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna (b. 1780)
• Yakov Povalo-Shveikovsky, General of the Infantry, Privy Councillor (b. 1750)
• Ivan Rakhmaninov, publisher, translator of Voltaire (b. 1753)
• Nikolai Rezanov, statesman, ambassador to Japan, promoted Russian colonization of Alaska and California (b. 1764)
• Franciszek Smuglewicz, Polish/Lithuanian draughtsman, painter (b. 1745)
• Marko Voinovich, admiral (b. 1750)

References

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