Russian History

Events 1 - 100 of 1,137

• 0911-09-02 Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
• 0990-01-01 Russia adopts Julian calendar
• 1223-05-31 Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol force led by Jebei and Subedei defeat a Russian alliance, after feigning their retreat, leading to the death of 20,000 Russians

• 1238-03-04 Battle of the Sit River: Mongol forces of Batu Khan overcome Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal near Yaroslavl in Russia, ending Russian resistance
• 1323-08-12 Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time
• 1326-06-03 Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark
• 1399-08-05 Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers
• 1514-09-08 Battle of Orsha: Polish Lithuania army defeats the Russian army
• 1557-02-27 1st Russian Embassy arrives in London

• 1561-07-12 "Trinity Church" (now Saint Basil's Cathedral) is consecrated in Moscow, Russia, built to commemorate defeat of the Mongols at battle of Kazan
• 1563-02-15 Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania
• 1579-07-08 Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan
• 1582-01-15 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic
• 1589-01-26 Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
• 1598-01-07 Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodor I
• 1598-02-17 Boris Godunov chosen as Tsar of Russia
• 1598-02-21 Boris Godunov crowned Tsar of Russia
• 1605-06-10 False Dimitri I, an impostor, crowned Russian tsar (rules 1605-1606)
• 1606-05-16 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
• 1608-06-01 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government

• 1610-08-27 Polish King Wladyslaw IV Vasa claims crown as King of Russia (disputed)
• 1612-11-01 (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
• 1613-02-07 Michail Romanov (aged 16) becomes Tsar of Russia
• 1613-02-21 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov
• 1617-03-09 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
• 1618-12-11 The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia agree to the Truce of Deulino ending the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)
• 1634-02-19 Battle of Smolensk: King Wladyslaw IV of Poland beats Russians [NS=Mar 1]
• 1634-03-01 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
• 1634-06-14 Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
• 1642-03-27 The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
• 1645-07-13 Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as Tsar of Russia
• 1649-06-01 Russian Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow
• 1652-07-25 Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church
• 1653-10-01 Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
• 1654-09-16 Russian troops occupy Smolensk in Poland
• 1655-07-31 Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years
• 1656-10-24 Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
• 1656-11-03 Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
• 1659-06-29 The Russians, led by Prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop
• 1661-06-21 Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty
• 1667-01-03 Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland
• 1667-01-20 Treaty of Andrussovo ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia
• 1667-01-30 Treaty/Truce of Andrusovo signed between Tsardom of Russia & Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• 1667-02-09 Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland signs peace treaty
• 1670-10-01 -4] Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers
• 1671-04-14 Cossacks capture Russian peasant leader Stenka Razin
• 1675-08-06 Russian Tsar Alexis bans foreign hair styles to those below the nobility
• 1676-01-29 Feodor III succeeds his father and becomes Tsar of Russia

• 1689-08-27 The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire
• 1689-09-08 China & Russia sign Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul), checked Russian expansion but opened trade further between the two countries
• 1697-03-10 Tsar Peter the Great of Russia begins a tour of Western Europe
• 1698-01-07 Russian Tsar Peter the Great departs Netherlands for England
• 1698-08-18 Russian Tsar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
• 1698-09-05 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
• 1699-11-22 Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark, Russia, Saksen and Poland divide Sweden
• 1699-12-20 Russian Tsar Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed from Sept 1 to Jan 1
• 1700-01-01 Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire
• 1700-02-12 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between Denmark–Norway, Saxony and Russia and the Swedish Empire.

• 1703-05-01 Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
• 1703-05-27 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great
• 1706-02-13 Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia and Saxon forces, one of Swedish's Greatest victories in the Great Northern War
• 1708-07-04 Battle of Holowczyn: Swedish King Charles XII defeats superior Russian force in surprising vctory
• 1708-10-09 Great Northern War: Battle at Lesnaya (N.S): Russian army captures Swedish convoy
• 1709-06-27 Great Northern War: Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava; Charles goes into exile in Bender, Ottoman Empire
• 1709-07-08 Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes, end of Swedish empire as a major power
• 1710-01-27 Tsar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget
• 1713-07-27 Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty
• 1714-07-14 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish naval force
• 1714-07-27 Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet
• 1714-08-07 The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden
• 1718-06-26 Peter the Great's son, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia dies from the effects of torture after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him
• 1720-07-27 The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam
• 1721-01-25 Tsar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
• 1721-08-30 Russian and Swedish sign Treaty of Nystad, ending North Sea War
• 1721-10-22 Tsar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"
• 1722-09-12 Russian troops occupy Baku & Derbent in Persia
• 1723-06-26 After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
• 1724-01-28 The Russian Academy of Sciences founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in a Senate decree. Called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
• 1724-06-23 Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople

• 1726-02-08 The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia

• 1727-05-07 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
• 1727-05-29 Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia aged 11
• 1727-10-21 Russian & Chinese accord to correct boundaries
• 1732-01-21 Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
• 1734-06-30 Russian army occupies Danzig
• 1734-12-13 Britain and Russia sign trade agreement
• 1735-03-10 An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku
• 1739-10-03 The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
• 1740-07-11 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Tsarina Anne
• 1740-10-17 Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia
• 1740-10-28 Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]
• 1741-08-20 Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition

• 1741-12-05 -6] Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna grabs powers

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 1,801

• 1186-05-18 Konstantin Vsevolodovich, Prince of Novgorod, born in Rostov, Russia (d. 1218)
• 1191-02-08 Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)

• 1314-05-13 Sergius of Radonezh, Russian saint, born in Varnitsa, Rostov Velikiy (d. 1392)
• 1326-03-30 Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
• 1353-07-15 Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
• 1415-03-10 Vasili II 'the Blind' Grand Prince of Moscow (1425-62) (d. 1462)

• 1479-03-26 Vasili III of Russia, Great Prince of Moscow (1505-33), son of Ivan III (d. 1533)

• 1557-05-31 Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Tsar of Russia (1584-98), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1598)
• 1578-11-01 Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (known for his military leadership during the Polish–Muscovite War 1611-12), born in Klin County, Moscow Governorate, Tsardom of Russia (d. 1642)
• 1582-10-19 Dmitry Ivanovich [Dmitry of Uglich], Russian Tsarevich and son of Ivan IV "the Terrible" (d. 1591)
• 1596-07-22 Michael I, first Russian Tsar of the House of Romanov (1613-45), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1645)
• 1605-05-24 Nikon [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, born in Veldemanovo, Russia (d. 1681)
• 1621-11-20 Avvakum, Russian Orthodox archpriest and writer, born in Grigorovo, Nizhny Novgorod (d. 1682)
• 1629-03-09 Tsar Alexis I of Russia [Aleksey Mikhaylovich], Tsar of Russia (1645-76), born in Moscow (d. 1676)
• 1629-03-19 Alexis of Russia [Aleksei Mikhailovich], Second Romanov tsar of Russia (1645-76), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1676) [9 Mar OS}
• 1629-03-19 Alexis [Alexei Mikhailovich], Tsar of All Russia (1645-76), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1676)
• 1651-09-01 Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
• 1657-06-14 Cornelis Cruys [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian Dutch admiral, commanded the Russian Baltic fleet, born in Stravanger, Denmark-Norway (d. 1727)
• 1657-09-27 Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1704)
• 1661-06-09 Tsar Feodor III of Russia (1676-82), born in Moscow, Tsardom of Russia (d. 1682)
• 1666-08-27 Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1696)
• 1667-06-18 Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
• 1669-08-09 Yevdokiya Lopukhina, Tsarina of Russia, first wife of Peter I of Russia, born in Moscow (d. 1731)

• 1681-06-18 Feofan Prokopovich, Russian Orthodox theologian and Archbishop of Novgorod, born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1736)
• 1684-04-15 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), born in Višķi, Daugavpils Municipality (d. 1727)
• 1686-04-19 Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman, born in Pskov, Russia (d. 1750)
• 1686-06-09 Andrei Osterman, German born Russian statesman to Tsar Peter I, born in Bochum, Westphalia (d. 1747)
• 1690-02-28 Alexei Petrovich, Russian Tsarevich and son of Peter the Great (who fell out with his father and defected to Austria), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1718)
• 1690-11-23 Ernst Johann van Biron, Russian duke of Courland and regent of Ivan VI, born in Kalnciems, Semigallia (d. 1772)
• 1690-11-29 Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
• 1693-02-07 Anna Ivanovna, Empress of Russia (1730-40) [NS], born in Moscow (d. 1740)
• 1694-08-28 Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Wife of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, born in Wolfenbüttel, Germany (d. 1715)
• 1696-08-02 Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1730-54) who fought Austria & Russia, born in Edirne Palace, Edirne, Ottoman Empire (d. 1754)
• 1702-07-30 Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin, Russian general who commanded Russian armies during the Seven Years' War, (d. 1758)
• 1703-03-05 Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)

• 1711-07-22 Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
• 1711-11-19 Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scholar and poet, born in Mishaninskaya, Archangelgorod Governorate, Tsardom of Russia (d. 1765)
• 1712-12-11 Francesco Algarotti, Italian art collector and encyclopedist (Viaggio in Russia), born in Venice (d. 1764)
• 1715-10-23 Peter II Alexeyevich, Tsar of Russia (1727-30), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1730)
• 1718-09-29 Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman and advisor to Catherine the Great (plot against Peter III), born in Danzig (d. 1783)
• 1727-11-01 Ivan Shuvalov, 1st Russian Minister of Education and founder of the Moscow University, born in Moscow (d. 1797)
• 1728-02-21 Peter III, German-born Russian Tsar (1762) and husband of Catherine the Great, born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1762)
• 1729-11-24 Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
• 1733-07-22 Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
• 1734-10-17 Grigori Orlov, Russian military officer and favorite of Catherine the Great (helped her overthrow Peter III), born in Bezhetsky Uyezd, Russia (d. 1783) [NS]
• 1737-08-10 Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
• 1738-05-08 Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal, born in Russian Empire (d. 1809)
• 1739-10-30 Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader, statesman and favorite of Catherine the Great, born in Chizhovo near Smolensk (d. 1791)
• 1740-05-07 Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
• 1740-08-23 Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1764)
• 1741-09-22 Peter Simon Pallas, German geologist and zoologist (scientific expeditions through Russia and Siberia), born in Berlin (d. 1811)
• 1743-07-14 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet and statesman, born in the Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1816)
• 1743-12-23 Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian author and poet (Dushenka), born in Perevolochna, Cossack Hetmanate (d. 1803)
• 1744-09-20 Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian-Russian master builder and architect (Hermitage Theater), born in Rota d'Imagna, Republic of Venice (d. 1817)
• 1744-10-07 Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
• 1745-09-16 Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (Battle of Borodino), born in St Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1813)
• 1749-08-31 Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow), born in Moscow (d. 1802)
• 1751-10-28 Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky, Russian-Ukrainian harpsichordist and composer (Tantum Ergo), born in Glukhov, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1825)
• 1753-11-06 Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1802)
• 1755-06-25 Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia, born in Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Prussia (d. 1776)
• 1756-10-02 Józef Javurek, Polish-Russian composer, born in Benešov, Czech Republic (d. 1840)
• 1757-07-24 Vladimir Borovikovsky [Vоlоdymyr Borovyk], Russian painter, born in Myrhorod (now Ukraine) (d. 1825)
• 1759-07-19 Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint, born in Kursk, Russian Empire (d. 1833) [OS]
• 1759-10-25 Maria Feodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia, born in Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1828)
• 1760-09-21 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (Minister of Justice, 1810-14), and poet ("Liberation of Moscow"), born in Simbirsk, Russian Empire (d. 1837)
• 1761-08-16 Yevstigney Fomin, Russian opera composer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1800)
• 1761-12-27 Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian fieldmarshal (Minister of War during Napoleonic invasion), born in Pomautsch, Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1818)
• 1763-01-24 Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
• 1766-12-01 Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
• 1769-02-13 Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
• 1769-07-23 Alexey Titov, Russian composer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1827)
• 1770-04-09 Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (Seebeck effect), born in Tallinn, Estonia, Russian Empire (d. 1831)
• 1770-04-28 Nikita P. Panin, Russian diplomat and minister of Foreign affairs, born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (d. 1837)
• 1770-07-13 Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman, born in Moscow (d. 1837)
• 1771-09-14 Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1829)
• 1772-01-12 Count Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839)
• 1773-06-02 John Randolph [of Roanoke], American planter, Congressman (Virginia) and Minister to Russia, born in Cawsons, Virginia (d. 1833)
• 1776-02-11 Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece (d. 1831)
• 1776-12-27 Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)

• 1779-01-24 Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Russian Tsarina (d. 1826)

• 1779-12-01 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, Russian church composer (d. 1856)
• 1780-12-14 Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German-Russian diplomat, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1862)
• 1782-03-24 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
• 1782-06-21 Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general, born in Olkhovatsky District, Russia (d. 1852)
• 1783-01-29 Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian folk poet and translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9], born in Mishenskoe, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1852)
• 1783-02-09 Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
• 1783-02-21 Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (VP: Imperial Academy of Arts 1828-68), born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1873)
• 1783-08-09 Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia, born in Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire (d. 1801)
• 1784-07-27 Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1839)
• 1784-12-24 Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1803)
• 1786-02-16 Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1859)
• 1787-03-11 Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
• 1787-08-15 Alexander Aliabiev, Russian composer remembered as one of the fathers of Russian art song, born in Tobolsk, Siberia (d. 1851)

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• 1716-04-08 Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Tsar Peter the Great's niece

• 1776-10-07 Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
• 1816-02-29 Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna

• 1932-10-04 Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna

• 1991-04-20 Soviet Russian figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva (19) weds Soviet Russian figure skater Sergei Grinkov (24), in a state sanctioned ceremony
• 1991-04-28 Soviet Russian figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva (19) weds Soviet Russian figure skater Sergei Grinkov (24), in a Russian Orthodox Church religious ceremony

• 2002-06-10 Soviet-Russian 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion skater Ekaterina Gordeeva (31) weds 1998 Olympic Champion figure skater Ilia Kulik (25) in San Francisco

Deaths 1 - 100 of 1,095

• 1113-04-16 Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)
• 1125-05-19 Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
• 1157-05-15 Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
• 1175-06-28 Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
• 1246-09-30 Yaroslav II of Russia, Grand Prince of Vladimir (1238-46), dies at 55
• 1303-03-04 Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
• 1318-11-22 Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
• 1383-06-05 Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
• 1392-09-25 Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint, dies at 78
• 1462-03-27 Vasili II 'the Blind' Grand Prince of Moscow, dies at 47

• 1533-12-03 Vasili III of Russia, Great Prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54
• 1569-10-09 Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
• 1570-07-25 Ivan Viskovatyi Russian Foreign Minister, executed on orders of Ivan the Terrible

• 1591-05-15 Dmitry Ivanovitch, youngest son of Russian Tsar Ivan IV, murdered at 8
• 1598-01-07 Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Tsar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
• 1598-01-17 Fyodor I Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)
• 1603-11-05 Irini Fedorovna, Russian daughter of Boris Godunov, dies
• 1605-04-23 Boris Godunov, chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I and Tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies after a lengthy illness and a stroke at approximately 20
• 1606-05-17 Forges Dimitri #1, Tsar of Russia (1605-06), murdered
• 1610-12-11 False Dmitry 2, Tsar of Russia, murdered
• 1612-09-12 Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (1606-10), dies deposed as a prisoner (b. 1552)
• 1642-04-30 Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (known for his military leadership during the Polish–Muscovite War 1611-12), dies at 63
• 1645-07-23 Michael I, first Russian Tsar of the House of Romanov (1613-45), dies at 49
• 1645-08-18 Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
• 1652-04-15 Patriarch Joseph of Moscow, sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
• 1671-06-06 Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian Cossack and Boer leader quartered alive (ns. 16 June)
• 1676-02-08 Alexis [Alexei Mikhailovich], Romanov Tsar of All Russia (1645-76), dies at 46 [OS 29 Jan]
• 1681-07-05 Fjodor Aleksejevitsj, tsar of Russia, dies
• 1681-08-17 Nikon [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies at 76
• 1682-04-14 Avvakum, Russian Orthodox archpriest and writer, dies at 60
• 1682-05-07 Tsar Feodor III of Russia (1676-82), dies at 20
• 1686-06-25 Simon Ushakov, Russian icon painter (b. 1626)
• 1694-02-04 Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
• 1696-01-29 Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89), dies at 29
• 1700-02-12 Aleksei Shein, Russian general and statesman (b. 1662)
• 1704-07-03 Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), dies at 46

• 1727-05-06 Catharine I of Russia [Marta Samuilovna], wife of Peter the Great, dies at about 42
• 1727-05-17 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies at 43
• 1728-11-10 Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (Great Northern War, Russo-Persian War) and Governor of Estonia and Karelia (1712-23), dies at 67
• 1730-01-30 Peter II Alexeyevich, Tsar of Russia (1727-30), dies of smallpox at 14
• 1731-09-07 Yevdokiya Lopukhina, Tsarina of Russia as the first wife of Peter I of Russia, dies at 62
• 1736-09-19 Feofan Prokopovich, Russian Orthodox theologian and Archbishop of Novgorod, dies at 55
• 1738-07-15 Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed
• 1740-10-28 Anna Ivanova, Empress of Russia (1730-40), dies of a kidney stone at 47
• 1746-03-18 Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
• 1747-03-16 Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia, dies at 56
• 1747-05-31 Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
• 1750-01-16 Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal, dies at 82
• 1750-07-15 Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman, dies at 73
• 1751-04-19 Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
• 1753-08-06 Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
• 1754-12-14 Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1730-54) who fought Austria & Russia, dies at 58
• 1758-08-06 Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin, Russian general who commanded Russian armies during the Seven Years' War, dies at 56

• 1762-07-17 Peter III, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies under mysterious circumstances in captivity at 34
• 1764-05-03 Francesco Algarotti, Italian art collector and encyclopedist (Viaggio in Russia), dies at 53
• 1764-07-16 Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23
• 1765-04-15 Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scholar & poet, dies at 53
• 1768-08-17 Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
• 1772-12-28 Ernst Johann van Biron, Russian duke of Courland, regent for Ivan VI, dies at 82
• 1773-01-04 Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737)
• 1775-01-10 Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"Tsar Peter III", dies
• 1775-01-11 Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia
• 1783-04-11 Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
• 1788-10-15 Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (Battle of Chesma), dies at 53
• 1789-04-26 Peter Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at ~67
• 1790-12-12 Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer, dies at 57
• 1791-10-16 Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader, statesman and favorite of Catherine the Great, dies at 52

• 1797-11-14 Ivan Shuvalov, 1st Russian Minister of Education and founder of the Moscow University, dies at 70
• 1800-05-18 Alexander Suvorov, Russian general, dies at 70
• 1801-03-23 Tsar Paul I of Russia (1796-1801) is struck with a sword, strangled, and trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle aged 46
• 1801-05-12 Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
• 1802-09-24 Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow), commits suicide by drinking poison at 53
• 1803-01-18 Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian author and poet (Dushenka), dies at 59
• 1805-03-14 Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
• 1809-08-12 Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal, dies at 71
• 1811-05-04 Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
• 1812-08-01 Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
• 1812-09-12 Pyotr Bagration, Georgian-Russian prince and general, dies fighting during Napoleonic invasion of Russia at 47
• 1813-04-28 Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (Battle of Borodino), dies at 67
• 1814-11-01 Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
• 1816-07-20 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
• 1817-02-18 Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian-Russian master builder and architect (Hermitage Theater), dies at 72
• 1817-10-02 Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
• 1818-05-26 Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian fieldmarshal (Minister of War during Napoleonic invasion), dies at 56
• 1819-10-15 Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
• 1825-04-06 Vladimir Borovikovsky [Vоlоdymyr Borovyk], Russian painter, died at 67
• 1825-10-10 Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky, Russian-Ukrainian harpsichordist and composer (Tantum Ergo), dies at 73

• 1826-06-03 Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
• 1826-07-25 Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
• 1826-07-25 Pavel Ivanovich Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13]
• 1827-11-20 Alexey Titov, Russian composer, dies at 58
• 1828-08-06 Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman, dies of a fever at 43
• 1828-11-05 Maria Feodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia, dies at 69
• 1829-02-11 Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)

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