1894 in Russia

Events happened in 1894 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander III (until 1 November); Nicholas II (starting 1 November)

Births

• March 30 – Nikolai Barabashov, Ukrainian astronomer. (d. 1971)
• April 15 – Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (d. 1971)
• August 26 – Maksim Purkayev, Soviet general (d. 1953)

Deaths

• Alexander III, monarch (born 1845)
• Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Peter Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)

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