1865 in Russia

Events from the year 1865 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

Events

• The Saint Petersburg Zoological Garden (later Leningrad Zoo) is founded by Sofia and Julius Gerhardt in Alexander Park, Saint Petersburg.

• Russian forces capture the Central Asian city of Tashkent, then part of the Khanate of Kokand. At the time, Tashkent had about 70,000 inhabitants and was a major centre of trade with Russia.
• Author Leo Tolstoy begins publishing his historical novel War and Peace in serial form in the periodical Russkiy Vestnik under the title 1805.

Births

19 January – Valentin Serov, painter (d. 1911).

10 August – Aleksandr Glazunov, composer (d. 1936).

14 August – Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, author (d. 1941).

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