1863 in Russia
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1863 in Russia (Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander II) was marked by significant internal and international developments, primarily dominated by the outbreak and early suppression of a major rebellion in the western territories.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Alexander II
Events
- Apraksin Dvor
- Pavel Military School
- Vremya (magazine)
- Tolstoy took five years (1863â1869) to complete his epic.[1]
- The January insurrection.[2]
Births
- Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863â1919)
- 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)
