1861 in Russia
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Events from the year 1861 in Russia
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Alexander II
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Events
- 27 February â Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule, killing 5 protesters.
- 3 March (February 19 O.S.) â Emancipation reform of 1861: Serfdom is abolished.
- 13 March â Tsushima incident: the Russian corvette Posadnik arrives at Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait, Japan, provoking a reaction from the Japan.
- 24 April (N.S.) â Bezdna in Russia is the scene of a peasant uprising; the military open fire and nearly 5000 are killed.[1]
- 21 May â Russian sailors clash with Japanese samurai and farmers at Tsushima island.[2]
Births
- 6 February - Nikolay Zelinsky, chemist
- 12 July - Anton Arensky, composer of Romantic classical music
- 29 October - Andrei Ryabushkin, painter
- 16 November - Arvid Järnefelt, Finnish author (d. 1932)
- 5 December - Konstantin Korovin, impressionist painter
Deaths
- 10 March - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and writer
- 29 November - Nikolay Dobrolyubov, philosopher and revolutionary
