1890 in Russia explained

Events from the year 1890 in Russia.

Incumbents

January 20 - Boris Kozo-Polyansky, botanist and evolutionary biologist (d. 1957)
February 10 – Boris Pasternak, writer (Doctor Zhivago), Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)
March 9 (new style) - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
April 18 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d.1958)
May 27 – Konstantin Ivanov, poet and important figure in Chuvash literature (d.1915)
August 3 – Konstantin Melnikov, avant-garde architect (d. 1974)
August 13 – Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a pilot's licence (d. 1916)
November 9 – Grigory Kulik, Soviet military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1950)
November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)