1797 in Russia

Events from the year 1797 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Paul I

Events

• Third Partition of Poland
• Pauline Laws - house laws of the House of Romanov established
• April 5 – Manifesto of three-day corvee
• Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria
• Herzen University founded
• Saint Petersburg Theological Academy founded

Births

• Alexander Bestuzhev, Decembrist, writer (d. 1837)
• Dimitri Ivanovich Dolgorukov, diplomat and travelling companion of Washington Irving (d. 1867)
• Yelizaveta Golitsyna, noblewoman, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1844)
• Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. (d. 1879)
• Alexander Kazarsky, naval officer, war hero (d. 1833)
• Nikolay Dmitrievich Mylnikov, portrait painter (d. 1842)
• Arsena Odzelashvili, Georgian outlaw, (d. 1842)
• Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. (d. 1882)

Deaths

• Ivan Chernyshyov, diplomat and admiralty official (b. 1726)
• Ekaterina Kniazhnina, poet (b. 1746)
• Pyotr Melissino, General of the Artillery (b. 1726)
• Vasily Pashkevich, composer, singer, violinist, teacher (b. circa 1742)
• Alexei Senyavin, admiral (b. 1716)
• Ivan Shuvalov, first Russian Minister of Education (b. 1727)

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