1813 in Russia

Events from the year 1813 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander I

Events

• Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
  • January 7-13 - Siege of Lankaran
  • October 24 - Treaty of Gulistan ends the war

• War of the Sixth Coalition (December 1812 - May 1814)
  • January 16 - Siege of Danzig begins; the city surrendered January 2, 1814
  • February 28 - Treaty of Kalisz, Prussia officially joins the coalition against France
  • April 5 - Battle of Möckern
  • May 2 - Battle of Lützen
  • May 20-21 - Battle of Bautzen
  • May 22 - Battle of Reichenbach
  • June 4 - Battle of Luckau
  • June 4 - Truce of Pläswitz paused fighting until July 10, later extended to August 10
  • June 14, 15, 27 - Treaties of Reichenbach formalize coalition against France
  • July 6 - Treaty of Peterswaldau between Russia and England
  • August 26 - Battle of the Katzbach
  • August 26-27 - Battle of Dresden
  • August 27 - Battle of Hagelberg
  • August 29–30 – Battle of Kulm
  • September 6 - Battle of Dennewitz
  • September 9 - Treaty of Töplitz between Austria, Prussia, and Russia
  • September 16 - Battle of the Göhrde
  • September 17 - Second Battle of Kulm
  • September 28 - Battle of Altenburg
  • October 10 - Siege of Dresden begins. The French garrison surrendered on November 11
  • October 14 - Battle of Liebertwolkwitz
  • October 16-19 - Battle of Leipzig
  • November 17 - Siege of Naarden begins; the French garrison leaves May 12, 1814
  • December 10 - Battle of Sehested
  • December 13 - Siege of Hamburg begins; the French garrison left the city on May 12, 1814
  • December 19-22 - Siege of Breda French forces fail to retake the city

• Golovnin Incident ends with the release of Vasily Golovnin by the Japanese on October 6
• Svetlana (ballad) by Vasily Zhukovsky published
• Russky Invalid, a long-running military newspaper, founded in Saint Petersburg

Births

• Pavel Annenkov (d. 1887), literary critic and memoirist
• Viktor Askochensky (d. 1879), writer, journalist, and historian
• Ivan Bartolomei (d. 1870), general, numismatist, ethnographer
• Nicholas Benois (d. 1898), architect of French and German ancestry
• Antonina Bludova (d. 1891), philanthropist, salonist, memoirist, and lady-in-waiting
• Nachman Chazan (d. 1884), scholar and figure in Breslov Hasidism
• David Dadiani (d. 1853), Prince of Mingrelia (1846-1853) and Russian general
• Alexander Dargomyzhsky (d. 1869), Russian composer
• Anatoly Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (d. 1870), expatriate aristocrat, industrialist, diplomat, state councillor, arts patron
• Giorgi Eristavi (d. 1864), Georgian playwright, poet, and journalist
• Timofey Granovsky (d. 1855), founder of Russian medieval studies
• Kreeta Haapasalo (d. 1893), Finnish folk singer and kantele player
• Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (d. 1879), opera composer, baritone, actor, and dramatist
• Carl Jaenisch (d. 1872), Finnish-born chess player and theorist
• Paulina Krakowowa (d. 1882), Polish writer, educator, editor, and social activist
• Lev Kulchitsky (d. 1873), admiral, mayor of Taganrog
• Charles H. Liebermann (d. 1886), Jewish Russian-American physician, co-founder of the Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Artur Nepokoychitsky (d. 1881), general of Polish ancestry
• Gennady Nevelskoy (d. 1876), naval officer, explorer of the Russian Far East
• Nikolay Ogarev (d. 1877), poet, historian, political activist
• Alexander Ozersky (d. 1880), geologist, governor of Tomsk
• Vasily Samoylov (d. 1887), actor, opera singer, painter
• Vladimir Sollogub (d. 1882), writer, salonist, government official
• Ernst von Stackelberg (d. 1870), Baltic German soldier and diplomat
• Nikolai Stankevich (d. 1840), poet and philosopher
• Kapiton Ushkov (d. 1868), industrialist
• Karol Wedel (d. 1902), German who built a confectionary business in Warsaw

Deaths

• Ivan Adamovich (b. 1752), general, fought at Battle of Borodino
• Stepan Degtyarev (b. 1766), composer
• Elizabeth Divov (b. 1762), courtier
• Magnus Gustav von Essen (b. 1759), Baltic German general, governor of Riga
• Aleksandr Figner (b. 1787), officer, organizer of partisans
• Boris Vladimirovich Golitsyn (b. 1769), aristocrat, general
• Ilija Novokršteni (b. ?), cavalry officer, advisor to Serbian rebels
• Ilya Gruzinov (b. 1781), professor of anatomy and physiology
• Pyotr Khanykov (b. 1743), admiral
• Mikhail Kutuzov (b. 1745), Field Marshal and diplomat
• Aleksey Melissino (b. c. 1759), major general
• Dmitry Neverovsky (b. 1771), general
• Andrei Rosenberg (b. 1739), Baltic German general
• Hayyim Tyrer (b. about 1740), Hasidic rabbi and kabbalist
• Alexander Vasilchikov (b. 1746), aristocrat, lover of Catherine the Great
• Artemiy Ivanovich Vorontsov (b. 1748), nobleman, senator, Active Privy Councillor

References

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