1865 in Russia
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Events from the year 1865 in Russia.
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Alexander II
Events
- The Saint Petersburg Zoological Garden (later Leningrad Zoo) is founded by Sofia and Julius Gerhardt in Alexander Park, Saint Petersburg.[1]
- Russian forces capture the Central Asian city of Tashkent, then part of the Khanate of Kokand. At the time, Tashkent had about 70,000 inhabitants and was a major centre of trade with Russia.[2]
- Author Leo Tolstoy begins publishing his historical novel War and Peace in serial form in the periodical Russkiy Vestnik under the title 1805.[3]
Births
19 January â Valentin Serov, painter (d. 1911).[4]
10 August â Aleksandr Glazunov, composer (d. 1936).[5]
14 August â Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, author (d. 1941).[6]
