1804 in Russia

Events from the year 1804 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander I

Events

Fath Ali Shah's victory over the Russians at Yerevan as depicted by Mirza Baba.

• Russo-Tlingit War (1802-1805)
  • Battle of Sitka
• Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
  • January - Siege of Ganja (1804)
  • June - Battle of Echmiadzin (1804)
  • July - September - Siege of Erivan (1804)

• Imperial Kazan University established
• Molotschna founded; largest Russian Mennonite colony
• Moscow Armenian Cemetery founded
• Mtiuleti rebellion
• Kingdom of Imereti becomes a Russian vassal
• Tomsk Governorate established

Births

Alexei Stepanovich Khomyakov (1842 self-portrait)

• Alexander Bantyshev, tenor opera singer, composer (d. 1860)
• Aleksander Chodźko, poet, Iranologist, and Slavist (d. 1891)
• Dorothea de Ficquelmont, writer and salonist (d. 1863)
• Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer and founder of the Russian nationalist school of classical music. (d. 1857)^[1]
• Aleksey Khomyakov, theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist; co-founded the Slavophile movement. (d. 1860)^[2]
• Mykhailo Maksymovych, botanist, historian, and writer (d. 1873)
• Mykola Markevych, historian, ethnographer (d. 1860)
• Nikolai Melgunov, writer, translator, and music critic (d. 1867)
• Pavel Petrovich Melnikov - Transport Minister, important in early railroad construction (d. 1880)
• Józef Mianowski - Polish doctor, medical researcher, academic administrator (d. 1879)
• Lyubov Mlotkovskaya - actress (d. 1866)
• Nikolai Nadezhdin - literary critic, ethnographer (d. 1856)
• Carl Timoleon von Neff - Baltic German artist (d. 1877)
• Aleksandr Nikitenko - Ukrainian literary historian, professor, imperial censor, and diarist (d. 1877)
• Grigol Orbeliani - Georgian poet; imperial general and governor (d. 1883)
• Alexander Polezhayev - poet (d. 1838)
• Yakov Rostovtsev - general, helped draft regulations to emancipate the serfs (d. 1860)
• Gordiy Sablukov - Islamist and translator (d. 1880)
• Judah Idel Scherschewsky - Lithuanian Jewish Talmudist and Hebraist (d. 1866)
• Gregory Shuvalov - aristocrat and officer; Catholic convert
• Eduard de Stoeckl - diplomat (d. 1892)
• Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov - general, diplomat, and administrator
• Ekaterina Telesheva - ballerina (d. 1857)
• Sofya Urusova - lady-in-waiting, favorite of Nicholas I (d. 1889)
• Porphyrius Uspensky - theologian, orientalist, archaeologist (d. 1885)
• Nikolay Yevdokimov - general; responsible for Circassian genocide

Deaths

Valerian Zubov (1796)

• Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1727)
• Anna Matyushkina, courtier (b. 1722)
• Valentin Musin-Pushkin, general and administrator (b. 1735)
• Maxim Rehbinder, general (b. 1730)
• Semyon Shchedrin, landscape painter (b. 1745)
• Valerian Zubov, general (b. 1771)