1797 in Russia explained

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)

Notes and References

Web site: Paul emperor of Russia . Encyclopedia Britannica . 22 July 2018 . en.
Book: Kubijovyc . Volodymyr . Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume I: A-F plus Map and Gazetteer . 1984 . University of Toronto Press . 9781442651173 . 94 . en.
Web site: Saint Innocent Veniaminov. ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160331152627/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Innocent-Veniaminov. 31 March 2016. 29 March 2020.
Web site: Fyodor Petrovich, Count (Graf) Litke RUSSIAN POLAR EXPLORER. ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160401094458/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Petrovich-Graf-Litke. 2016-04-01. 2020-04-02.