1837 in Russia

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Events from the year 1837 in Russia

• The Winter Palace is destroyed by fire.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Nicholas I

Events

• Tsar Nicholas I is the first reigning Russian monarch to tour the Caucuses region since Peter I, 115 years earlier. ^[1]
• Peter Chaadev publishes Apology of a Madman. ^[2]
• Major reforms to the Russian imperial bureaucracy include provisions for the creation of newspapers in Russian's 42 European provinces. ^{[3] [4]}
• The Ministry of State Properties, which controlled government lands including farms, is created in December, 1837. ^[2]
• A decree on New Year's day moved administrative control of the Russian Greek Catholic Church from Russia's interior ministry to the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church's chief procurator. This would set the stage for full union two years later ^{[2] [4]}
• October 30, the first train service in Russia, the Tsarskoye Selo Railway, running from St. Petersburg to Pavlovsk, opened to the public. ^[5]
• Fire destroys the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. ^[6]

Deaths

• 10 February ^[a] - Alexander Pushkin, poet, dies in duel (born 1799)

References

1. 29 January O.S.

1. Khodarkovsky, Michael (2014). Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus. Ithica, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell Press. p. 120. ISBN   9780801449727.
2. Werth, Paul W. (18 Feb 2021). 1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution. UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 145–164, especially 145. ISBN   9780198826354.
3. Werth, Paul W. (2021). 1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford Publications (published 18 Feb 2021). pp. 85–104, especially 87. ISBN   9780198826354.
4. Полное собрание законов Российской империи[Complete Collection of the Laws of the Russian Empire] (in Russian). Second Department of His Imperial Majesty's Own Office. 1837. p. 1.
5. Haywood, Richard Mowbray (1969). The beginnings of railway development in Russia in the reign of Nicholas I, 1835-1842. Durham, North Carolina, USA: Duke University Press. p. 119. ISBN   9780822300847.
6. Вече, M. (1999). 00 великих катастроф[100 Major Disasters] (in Russian). p. 261. ISBN   5-7838-0454-1.

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