1798 in Russia

• Monarch – Paul I

• War of the Second Coalition
  • Siege of Corfu (1798–1799)
• S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy founded
• Ostankino Palace completed

• Ivane Andronikashvili (died 1868), Georgian prince, Russian general
• Łukasz Baraniecki (died 1858), Archbishop of Lviv
• Alexander Brullov (died 1877), painter
• Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) (died 1860), Empress of Russia, wife of Emperor Nicholas I
• Anton Delvig (died 1831), poet and journalist
• Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov (died 1840), nobleman, philanthropist and industrialist
• Alexander Gorchakov (died 1883), diplomat and statesman
• Anton Legashov (died 1865), painter
• Iulian Liublinskii (died 1876), nobleman and Decembrist
• Alexei Lvov (died 1870), composer
• Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (died 1849), archduke, military commander
• Elisei Morozov (died 1868), businessman of the Morozovs dynasty
• Nikolay Protasov (died 1855), general, attorney-general of the Most Holy Synod
• Ivan Pushchin (died 1859), Decembrist and friend of Alexander Pushkin
• Valerian Safonovich (died 1867), governor of Oryol 1854-1861
• Joseph Semashko (died 1868), archbishop
• Sofya Shcherbatova (died 1885), philanthropist
• Ivan Sherwood Verny (died 1867), army officer who helped reveal the Decembrists
• Menucha Rochel Slonim (died 1888), Rebbetzin, matriarch of the Chabad dynasty, emigrant to Hebron
• Ana Gruzinskaya Tolstaya (died 1889), noblewoman

• Peter Bielański (born 1736), bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv
• Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn (born 1731), nobleman and soldier
• Gabriel Lenkiewicz (born 1722), priest, Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus 1785-1798

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