1861 in Russia

Events from the year 1861 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

Events

• 27 February – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule, killing 5 protesters.
• 3 March (February 19 O.S.) – Emancipation reform of 1861: Serfdom is abolished.
• 13 March – Tsushima incident: the Russian corvette Posadnik arrives at Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait, Japan, provoking a reaction from the Japan.
• 24 April (N.S.) – Bezdna in Russia is the scene of a peasant uprising; the military open fire and nearly 5000 are killed.
• 21 May – Russian sailors clash with Japanese samurai and farmers at Tsushima island.

Births

• 6 February - Nikolay Zelinsky, chemist
• 12 July - Anton Arensky, composer of Romantic classical music
• 29 October - Andrei Ryabushkin, painter

• 16 November - Arvid Järnefelt, Finnish author (d. 1932)
• 5 December - Konstantin Korovin, impressionist painter

Deaths

• 10 March - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and writer
• 29 November - Nikolay Dobrolyubov, philosopher and revolutionary

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