1889 in Russia
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Events from the year 1889 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 2 February â Vasily Struve, historian, a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family (died 1965)
- 24 February â Aleksei Dikiy, historian, actor and director (died 1955)
- 28 February â Pavel Dybenko, a Bolshevik revolutionary and a leading Soviet officer and military commander (died 1938)
- 19 March â Boris Gerasimovich, a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1937)
- 20 March â Alexander Vertinsky, historian, a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor (died 1957)
- 14 October â Natalia Martirosyan, engineer (died 1960)[2]
- 25 November â Yan Berzin, politician and military intelligence officer (died 1938)
Deaths
- 22 April â Vasily Kokorev, one of the wealthiest men in Russia, entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector (born 1817)
- 7 May â Dmitry Tolstoy, a politician and a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia (born 1823)
- 10 May â Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century (born 1826)
- 20 August â Andrey Krayevsky, publisher and journalist (born 1810)
- 29 October â Nikolay Chernyshevsky, a literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher (born 1828)
- 8 November â Nadezhda Sigida, a Russian revolutionary, heroine of the Kara katorga tragedy of 1889 (born 1862)
