1889 in Russia

Events from the year 1889 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander III

Events

• Angleterre Hotel
• Kansallis-Osake-Pankki
• The Land Captain Statute

Births

• 2 February – Vasily Struve, historian, a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family (died 1965)
• 24 February – Aleksei Dikiy, historian, actor and director (died 1955)
• 28 February – Pavel Dybenko, a Bolshevik revolutionary and a leading Soviet officer and military commander (died 1938)
• 19 March – Boris Gerasimovich, a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1937)
• 20 March – Alexander Vertinsky, historian, a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor (died 1957)
• 14 October – Natalia Martirosyan, engineer (died 1960)
• 25 November – Yan Berzin, politician and military intelligence officer (died 1938)

Deaths

• 22 April – Vasily Kokorev, one of the wealthiest men in Russia, entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector (born 1817)
• 7 May – Dmitry Tolstoy, a politician and a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia (born 1823)
• 10 May – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century (born 1826)
• 20 August – Andrey Krayevsky, publisher and journalist (born 1810)
• 29 October – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, a literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher (born 1828)
• 8 November – Nadezhda Sigida, a Russian revolutionary, heroine of the Kara katorga tragedy of 1889 (born 1862)

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