1796 in Russia

Events from the year 1796 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Catherine II (until November 17), Paul I (after November 17)

Events

• Persian Expedition of 1796
• Storming of Derbent - May 10
• Alexander Palace completed
• Gomel Palace completed
• New Russia trading post established in what is modernly Yakutat, Alaska
• Ulyanovsk (then "Simbirsk") granted city status
• Vsevolod, a 74-gun ship of the line, launched

Births

• Nicholas I of Russia, monarch (d. 1855)
• Pavel Petrovich Anosov, mining engineer, governor, and general (d. 1851)
• Alexander Bagration-Imeretinsky, Georgian prince, Russian general
• Nikolai Brashman, mathematician (d. 1866)
• Nikolai Lukash, general and civil servant (d. 1868)
• Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Decembrist (d. 1826)
• Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, civil servant and statesman (d. 1866)
• Nikita Muravyov, Decembrist (d. 1843)
• Yevgeny Obolensky, Decembrist (d. 1865)
• Nikolai Polevoy, editor, writer, historian (d. 1846)
• Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist (d. 1863)

Deaths

• Catherine II, monarch (born 1729)
• Nikolay Arsenyev, general (b. circa 1739)
• Juvenaly of Alaska, Russian Orthodox martyr (b. 1761)
• Ermil Kostrov, poet and translator (b. 1755)
• Andrei Miloradovich, general and governor (b. 1727)
• Pavel Potemkin, soldier, statesman, writer (b. 1743)
• Gavriil Pribylov, navigator
• Pyotr Rumyantsev, general, (born 1725)

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