1882 in Russia

Events from the year 1882 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander III

Events

• Tcherny railway accident
• May Laws
• Pavlovka (meteorite)
• Peasants' Land Bank
• 1812 Overture

Births

• January 4 – Aristarkh Lentulov, painter and set designer (died 1943)
• June 17 – Igor Stravinsky, composer, pianist, and conductor (died 1971)
• June 22 – Nikolai Cholodny, microbiologist (died 1953)

Deaths

• - Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. (b. 1797)

• - Sergei Nechaev Russian nihilist and anarcho-communist (born 1847)

References