1846 in Russia

Here are the events from the year 1846 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Nicholas I

Events

• A wealthy landowner, Nikolai Bakhmetev, constructs a stone church, which would eventually be built into the Annunciation Monastery (Tolyatti) in Samara Oblast
• On January 15, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel "Poor Folk" was published in the St. Petersburg Collection almanac, which was a significant moment in Russian literature that foreshadowed deeper social critiques.
• The Double was first published in the Otechestvennye zapiski on 30 January, which was Fyodor Dostoevsky's second novel.
• The Petrashevsky Circle, organized by Mikhail Petrashevsky, was active in the 1840s (founded in 1845) and by 1846 it existed as a gathering of intellectuals.
• A devastating potato disease hit the Russian Empire. However, it was supposed to shield the peasants against famine.

Births

January–June

July–December

• August 16 – Oskar Victorovich Stark, Russian admiral and explorer (d. 1928)
• September 25 – Wladimir Köppen, Russian-German geographer, climatologist (d. 1940)
• December 21 – Julia Lermontova, Russian chemist (d. 1919)

Deaths

References