1899 in Russia
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Events from the year 1899 in Russia.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Nicholas II
Events
Births
- January 14 â Georg Witt, film producer (d. 1973)
- March 18 â Max Alpert, photographer (d. 1980)[1]
- April 22 â Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American writer (d. 1977)
- April 24 â Oscar Zariski, mathematician (d. 1986)
- May 31 â Leonid Leonov, novelist and playwright (d. 1994)
- June 26 â Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)[2]
- September 1 â Andrei Platonov, Soviet writer (d. 1951)
- October 22 â Nikolay Bogolyubov, actor (d. 1980)
- October 27 â Mikhail Zharov, actor and director (d. 1981)
- October 29 â Akim Tamiroff, Armenian actor (d. 1972)
- November 8 â Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)
Deaths
- January 21 â Mikhail Annenkov, nobleman, author, military officer, and engineer (b. 1835)
- January 30 â Ivan Velio, statesman, Active Privy Councillor (b. 1830)
- March 4 â Vasyl Bilozersky, political and cultural activist, journalist, scientist, and pedagogue (b. 1825)
- May 11 â Varvara Rudneva, physician (b. 1844)
- September 20 â Anatoly Vaneyev, revolutionary (b. 1872)
