1860 in Russia

Events from the year 1860 in Russia

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Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

Events

• Founding of the Moscow School for the Deaf^[1]
• Founding of Vladivostok
• Convention of Beijing
• St. Petersburg River Yacht Club
• Rēzekne I–Daugavpils Railway
• Dmitry Milyutin was appointed deputy war minister
• Circassian Majlis
• State Bank of the Russian Empire

Births

• 29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer. (d. 1904)^[2]
• 1 April 1860 - Sergey Reformatsky, Russian chemist. (d. 1934)^[3]
• 22 May 1860 - Mikhail Grigoryevich Pervushin (ru), Russian Imperial Army general-major, commander of the 1st Nevsky Infantry Regiment. (d. 1917)^[4]
• 14 July 1860 - Vasily Velichko, Russian dramatist, poet, editor, theatre critic, publicist, political activist. (d. 1904)
• 28 July 1860 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, member of the House of Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. (d. 1922)
• 30 August [O.S. 18 August] 1860 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter. (d.1900)^[5]
• 27 November 1860 - Victor Ewald, Russian engineer, architect, composer. (d. 1935)^[6]
• 23 December [O.S. 11 December] 1860 - Nikolai Ottovich von Essen, Russian admiral. (d. 1915)^[7]

Deaths

• 18 February [O.S. 6 February] 1860 - Yakov Rostovtsev, Russian general, reformer and principal drafter of the 1861 Emancipation reform. (b. 1804)^[8]
• 5 October [O.S. 23 September] 1860 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist who co-founded the Slavophile movement. (b. 1804)^[9]
• 1 November 1860 - Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess Charlotte of Prussia and Empress of Russia. (b. 1798)