1863 in Russia

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Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Events from the year 1863 in Russia .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

Events

• Apraksin Dvor
• Pavel Military School
• Vremya (magazine)
• Tolstoy took five years (1863–1869) to complete his epic. ^[1]
• The January insurrection. ^[2]

Births

• Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919)
• Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, heir presumptive to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Nestor Kotlyarevsky, author, literary critic
• Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy, religious philosopher
• Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin, zoologist
• Aleksandr Golovin (artist)
• Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner
• Basil Belavin was born in 1865. ^[3]

Deaths

• Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist
• Mikhail Shchepkin, actor
• Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov, Major-General
• Jekaterina Saltykov, courtier (born 1791)

References

1. Viesel, Mikhail (2015-11-11). "War and Peace: 7 little-known facts about Russia's greatest epic" . Retrieved 2018-07-16.
2. "January Insurrection | Polish Uprising of 1863-1864 | Britannica". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2025-09-27. Retrieved 2025-12-04.
3. Daniel J. Demers (2018-07-03). "The Saints of Fort Ross: A Russian Orthodox Reliquary". Sonoma West. Archived from the original on 2018-07-10.

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