1802 in Russia

• Monarch – Alexander I

• Manifesto on the Establishment of Ministries, which established:
  • Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire
  • Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire
  • Ministry of National Education (Russian Empire)
  • Ministry of War of the Russian Empire
• Tartu University Library
• Imperial Philanthropic Society
• Moscow School of the Order of St Catherine
• Caucasus Governorate
• Chernigov Governorate
• Kherson Governorate
• Poltava Governorate
• Taurida Governorate
• Vitebsk Governorate
• Yekaterinoslav Governorate

• Aharon of Karlin (II), Hasidic rabbi (d. 1872)
• Irakly Baratynsky, general and statesman (d. 1859)
• Alexey Buturlin, soldier and statesman (d. 1863)
• Grigory Chernetsov, painter (d. 1865)
• Konstantin Chevkin, general, Minister of Transport 1855-1862 (d. 1875)
• Boris Chorikov, artist and illustrator (d. 1866)
• Praskovya Alexandrovna Hendrikova, noblewoman and court figure (d. 1843)
• Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist, and philologist (d. 1870)
• Alexandra Kolosova, actor and writer (d. 1880)
• Ivan Krasnov, general and writer (d. 1871)
• Nikolai Kristofari, helped create Russian banking system (d. 1881)
• Nikifor Krylov, painter (d. 1831)
• Nikolai Lavrov, opera singer (d. 1840)
• Alexey Tarasovich Markov, painter and academic (d. 1878)
• Pavel Nakhimov, admiral and war hero (d. 1855)
• Jacob Netsvetov, Orthodox missionary in Alaska (d. 1864)
• Alexander Odoevsky, poet, playwright, Decembrist (d. 1839)
• Alexander Orbeliani, Georgian poet and journalist (d. 1869)
• Mikhail Tebenkov, vice admiral, hydrographer (d. 1872)
• Yegor Tolstoy, general, governor, and senator (d. 1874)
• Mikhail Yuzefovich, educator known for efforts to suppress Ukrainian (d. 1889)

• Franz Aepinus, German mathematician and scientist (b. 1724)
• Ivan Argunov, painter (b. 1729)
• Mikhail Kozlovsky, sculptor (b. 1753)
• Ivan Lepyokhin, naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer (b. 1740)
• Alexander Radishchev, writer and social critic (b. 1749)
• Darya Petrovna Saltykova, noblewoman and court figure (b. 1739)

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