1866 in Russia explained

Events from the year 1866 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

Events

• Daugavpils–Indra Railway
• Delo (magazine)
• Ekostrovskaya Volost
• Kalinin Machine-Building Plant
• Moscow Criminal Investigations Department
• South Eastern Railway (Russia)
• Swedish Theatre
• Alexander III marries Maria Sophie Feodorovna of Denmark

Births

• - Dmitri Parsky, general (d. 1921)
• - Wassily Kandinsky, artist. (d. 1944)

Deaths

• - Mikhail Petrashevsky, Russian revolutionary and Utopian theorist. (b. 1821)^[1]
• Maria Ikonina, ballerina. (b. 1788)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mikhail Vasilievich Petrashevsky. XPOHOC. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20191230203521/http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_p/petrashevski.php. 30 December 2019. 29 March 2020.