1797 in Russia

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The manifesto of three-day corvee.

Events from the year 1797 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Paul I^[1]

Events

• Third Partition of Poland
• Pauline Laws - house laws of the House of Romanov established
• April 5 – Manifesto of three-day corvee^[2]
• Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria
• Herzen University founded
• Saint Petersburg Theological Academy founded

Births

• Alexander Bestuzhev, Decembrist, writer (d. 1837)
• Dimitri Ivanovich Dolgorukov, diplomat and travelling companion of Washington Irving (d. 1867)
• Yelizaveta Golitsyna, noblewoman, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1844)
• Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. (d. 1879)^[3]
• Alexander Kazarsky, naval officer, war hero (d. 1833)
• Nikolay Dmitrievich Mylnikov, portrait painter (d. 1842)
• Arsena Odzelashvili, Georgian outlaw, (d. 1842)
• Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. (d. 1882)^[4]

Deaths

• Ivan Chernyshyov, diplomat and admiralty official (b. 1726)
• Ekaterina Kniazhnina, poet (b. 1746)
• Pyotr Melissino, General of the Artillery (b. 1726)
• Vasily Pashkevich, composer, singer, violinist, teacher (b. circa 1742)
• Alexei Senyavin, admiral (b. 1716)
• Ivan Shuvalov, first Russian Minister of Education (b. 1727)

References

1. "Paul | emperor of Russia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
2. Kubijovyc, Volodymyr (1984). Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume I: A-F plus Map and Gazetteer. University of Toronto Press. p. 94. ISBN 9781442651173.
3. "Saint Innocent Veniaminov". ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
4. "Fyodor Petrovich, Count (Graf) Litke RUSSIAN POLAR EXPLORER". ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. Archived from the original on 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2020-04-02.

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