1813 in Russia

Events from the year 1813 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander I

Events

• February 28 - Treaty of Kalisz, A treaty which solidified a Russo-Prussian alliance, and marked the official shift in Prussia to be against Napoleon.
• August 29–30 – Battle of Kulm, A battle in the War of the Sixth Coalition, in which the French, under general Dominique Vandamme, faced a Coalition army led by Alexander Osterman-Tolstoy, resulting in a Coalition victory and Vandamme's capture
• October 16-19, Battle of Leipzig, A battle in the War of the Sixth Coalition where the Russians, under Levin August von Bennigsen with help of other coalition powers, beats the French and marks the end of the Confederation of the Rhine.
• October 24 - Treaty of Gulistan, ending the fourth Russo-Persian War (1804–1813).

Births

• February 14 – Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (died 1869)
• February 16 – Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, opera composer, baritone, actor, and dramatist (died 1873)
• July 1 – Pavel Annenkov, literary critic and memoirist (died 1893)

Deaths

• April 28 – Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian Field Marshal and diplomat (born 1745)
• Date unknown – Elizabeth Divov, courtier (born 1762)

References

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