1892 in Russia

Events from the year 1892 in Russia.

Decades:

Incumbents

Monarch â Alexander III^[1]

Events

The discovery of viruses by Dmitri Ivanovsky
The creation of Mir Bozhiy
Diamond Trellis Egg
Franco-Russian Alliance
Russian famine of 1891â92
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
Iolanta by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Births

January 4 â Pavel Medvedev, literary scholar (d. 1938)
January 10 â Vladimir Littauer, Russian equestrian trainer (d. 1989)
January 12 â Mikhail Kirponos, general of the Red Army (d. 1941)
January 17 â Igor Terentiev, poet, artist, stage director, and a representative of the Russian avant-garde (d. 1937)
January 24 â Arkady Shvetsov, aircraft engine designer (d. 1953)
January 24 â Pyotr Solodukhin, military figure and Bolshevik division commander in the Russian Civil War (d. 1920)
January 25 â Kamilla Trever, historian, numismatist and orientalist (d. 1974)
January 28 â Fyodor Raskolnikov, politician, writer, journalist, commander of Red fleets and a Soviet diplomat (d. 1939)
January 28 â Ivan Tyulenev, military commander (d. 1978)
February 2 â Boris Kuftin, archaeologist and ethnographer (d. 1953)
February 5 â Fyodor Borisov, cyclist (d. 1964)
February 6 â Ivan Loiko, flying ace (d. unknown)
February 7 â Vasily Butusov, football player (d. 1971)
February 8 â Fyodor Astakhov, Marshal of Aviation (d. 1966)
February 14 â Maria Vorobyeva-Stebelska, also known as Marie Vorobieff or Marevna, a painter known for her work with Cubism and pointillism (d. 1984)
February 18 â Alexander Serebrovsky, geneticist, poultry breeder, and eugenicist (d. 1948)
February 24 â Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (d. 1977)
February 25 â Alexander Chervyakov, politician and revolutionary (d. 1937)
February 26 â Pyotr Baranovsky, architect, preservationist and restorator (d. 1984)
February 26 â Nikolai Orlov, pianist (d. 1964)
March 1 â Nikolai Nevsky, linguist (d. 1937)
March 2 â Georgi Atarbekov, security police official (d. 1925)
March 4 â Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov, film director and screenwriter (d. 1965)
March 4 â Nikolai Kondratiev, economist and proponent of the New Economic Policy (NEP) (d. 1938)
March 5 â Kasyan Goleizovsky, choreographer and dancer (d. 1970)
March 8 â Gyulboor Davydova, winegrower (d. 1983)
March 13 â Yevgeniy Terletskiy, politician, member of the Russian Constituent Assembly, People Commissar (narkom) of Justice, diplomat (d. 1938)
March 14 â Antonina Sofronova, artist and illustrator (d. 1966)
March 21 â Aleksandr Malyshkin, writer (d. 1938)
March 25 â Helena Antipoff, psychologist (d. 1974)
March 25 â Alexander Poniatoff, electrical engineer (d. 1980)
March 25 â Konstantin Zel'in, historian of classical antiquity (d. 1983)
April 2 â Xenia Denikina, writer, Anton Denikin's wife (d. 1973)
April 6 â Nikita Naidenov, speed skater (d. 1961)
April 18 â Dmitrii Menshov, mathematician (d. 1988)
April 19 â Georgy Adamovich, poet of the acmeist school, and a literary critic, translator and memoirist (d. 1972)
April 22 â Nikolai Obukhov, composer (d. 1964)
April 24 â Mikhail Skorodumov, general (d. 1963)
May 9 â Nikolai Khodataev, artist, sculptor and animator, one of the founders of the Soviet animation industry (d. 1979)
May 30 â Konstantin Ostrovityanov, Marxist economist, academic and public figure (d. 1969)
May 30 â Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, writer and journalist (d. 1975)
May 31 â Konstantin Paustovsky, writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 (d. 1968)
June 6 â Alexander Kapitokhin, Lieutenant general (d. 1958)
June 9 â Nikolai Polikarpov, aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer (d. 1944)
June 13 â Valeria Barsova, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
June 21 â Nikolai Gorbunov, politician, chemist, engineer and academic (d. 1970)
July 8 â Pavel Korin, painter and art restorer (d. 1967)
July 8 â Aleksandr Porokhovschikov, military engineer, tank and aircraft inventor (d. 1941)
July 13 â Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Bolshevik revolutionary (d. 1940)
July 29 â Pyotr Romanovsky, chess player and author (d. 1964)
August 6 â Sergei Bessonov, state, public and party activist and diplomat (d. 1941)
August 12 â Boris Lavrentiev, histologist (d. 1944)
August 13 â Yuri Jobbers (Georgiy Maklakov), teacher and a Catholic convert from Russian Orthodoxy (d. 1969)
August 15 â Ivan Boldin, a senior Red Army general (d. 1965)
August 15 â Stepan Oborin, Red Army major general (d. 1941)
August 19 â Elizabeth Kozlova, ornithologist (d. 1975)
August 27 â Alexander Chuhaldin, violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator (d. 1951)
September 19 â Nina Niss-Goldman, painter, sculptor and a teacher (d. 1990)
September 22 â Pyotr Baranov, a military commander and politician, one of the main creators and organisers of the Air Force and the aircraft industry of the Soviet Union (d. 1933)
September 30 â Andrey Khrulyov, military commander (d. 1962)
October 1 â Mikhail Pronin, major general (d. 1978)
October 5 â Pyotr Suvchinsky, artistic patron and writer on music (d. 1985)
October 8 â Marina Tsvetaeva, poet of the Silver Age, prose writer, translator (d. 1941)
October 12 â Yevgeny Korovin, jurist specializing in international law (d. 1964)
October 20 â Sergei Tomkeieff, geologist and petrologist who won the Geological Society's Lyell Medal (d. 1968)
October 21 â Lydia Lopokova, ballerina (d. 1981)
October 21 â Yuri Terapiano, poet, writer, translator, literary critic and a prominent figure in White Ã©migrÃ© cultural life (d. 1980)
October 24 â Jaan Lukas, military personnel (d. 1953)
October 26 â Andrey Chekharin, Red Army colonel (d. 1941)
October 31 â Alexander Alekhine, chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion (d. 1946)
November 10 â Diodor Kolpinskiy, Eastern Catholic priest (d. 1932)
November 14 â Ernest Drezen, Esperantist and engineer (d. 1937)
November 17 â Nikandr Chibisov, Soviet Army colonel general (d. 1959)
November 20 â Mikhail Rusakov, geologist (d. 1963)
November 23 â Rudolf Sivers, revolutionary and military leader (d. 1918)
November 24 â Dmitri Skobeltsyn, physicist (d. 1990)
November 27 â Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia, the son of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich (d. 1914)
November 28 â Tarlan Aliyarbayov, military officer (d. 1956)
December 2 â Boris Shimeliovich, revolutionary and the medical director of Moscow's Botkin Hospital (d. 1952)
December 5 â Mykola Barsamov, architect, preservationist and restorator (d. 1976)
December 9 â Vsevolod Balitsky, a Soviet official, Commissar of State Security 1st Class of the NKVD (d. 1937)
December 16 â Boris Gusman, author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda (d. 1944)
December 18 â Mykola Kulish, prose writer, playwright, pedagogue, veteran of World War I (d. 1937)
December 18 â Michael Visaroff, actor (d. 1951)
December 23 â Sarra Lebedeva, sculptor (d. 1967)
December 26 â Konstantin Tretiakoff, neuropathologist (d. 1958)
December 29 â Aleksandr Arkhangelsky, aircraft designer (d. 1978)

Deaths

January 8 â Nikolay Ilminsky, professor of Turkic languages (b. 1822)
January 11 â Sofya Bogomolets, a revolutionary and political prisoner (b. 1856)
January 16 â Mikhail Semevsky, historian (b. 1837)
January 25 â Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, the second son of Nicholas I and Charlotte of Prussia, the Emperor's Viceroy of Poland and a general admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy (b. 1825)
February 13 â Wilhelm Junker, Doctor of Medicine, geographer and traveller, one of the first Russian explorers of Africa (b. 1840)
February 29 â Evgraf Sorokin, artist and teacher (b. 1821)
March 3 â Andrey Denyer, portrait photographer and artist (b. 1820)
March 15 â Fedor Solntsev, painter, art restorer, architect, and historian (b. 1801)
March 15 â Mikhail Znamensky, a Russian writer, memoirist, painter, caricaturist, archeologist and ethnographer (b. 1833)
April 21 â Ivan Shamshev, an Imperial Russian lieutenant general, adjutant general and division commander (b. 1819)
May 16 â Ekaterina Beketova, poet, writer, and translator (b. 1855)
May 24 â Nikolai Karonin-Petropavlovsky, writer, essayist, and political activist (b. 1853)
June 1 â Pyotr Gruzinsky, painter (b. 1837)
June 11 â Nikolai Skadovsky, painter (b. 1845)
June 25 â Jan Czerski, paleontologist, osteologist, geologist, geographer and explorer of Siberia (b. 1845)
July 25 â Sergei Tretyakov, philanthropist and patron of the arts, who co-founded the Tretyakov Gallery with his brother Pavel Tretyakov (b. 1834)
August 3 â Johann August Nauck, a German classical scholar and critic (b. 1822)
September 16 â Judah Leib Gordon, poet (b. 1830)
November 16 â Alexey Galakhov, author and literary historian (b. 1807)
November 19 â Viktor Klyushnikov, writer, editor and journalist (b. 1841)
December 3 â Afanasy Fet, lyric poet and translator, memoirist, Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, prose writer (b. 1820)
December 26 â Martha von Sabinin, public figure, composer and pianist, founder of the Russian Red Cross (b. 1831)

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