1863 in Russia explained

Events from the year 1863 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

Events

• Apraksin Dvor
• Pavel Military School
• Vremya (magazine)
• Tolstoy took five years (1863–1869) to complete his epic.^[1]

Births

• Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919)
• Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, heir presumptive to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Nestor Kotlyarevsky, author, literary critic
• Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy, religious philosopher
• Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin, zoologist
• Aleksandr Golovin (artist)
• Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner
• Basil Belavin was born in 1865.^[2]

Deaths

• Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist
• Mikhail Shchepkin, actor
• Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov, Major-General
• Jekaterina Saltykov, courtier (born 1791)

Notes and References

1. News: War and Peace: 7 little-known facts about Russia’s greatest epic. Viesel. Mikhail. 2015-11-11. 2018-07-16. en-US.
2. News: The Saints of Fort Ross: A Russian Orthodox Reliquary . Daniel J. Demers . 2018-07-03 . Sonoma West . en . https://web.archive.org/web/20180710113948/http://www.sonomawest.com/sonoma_west_times_and_news/news/the-saints-of-fort-ross-a-russian-orthodox-reliquary/article_84072c84-7f14-11e8-97a1-bbcc567f0eb3.html . 2018-07-10.