1892 in Russia explained

Events from the year 1892 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander III

Events

• • • The discovery of viruses by Dmitri Ivanovsky
• Mir Bozhiy
• Diamond Trellis Egg
• Franco-Russian Alliance
• Russian famine of 1891–92
• The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
• Iolanta by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Births

• January 4  - Pavel Medvedev, literary scholar (d. 1938)
• January 10 – Vladimir Littauer, Russian equestrian trainer (d. 1989)
• January 12  - Mikhail Kirponos, general of the Red Army (d. 1941)
• January 17  - Igor Terentiev, poet, artist, stage director, and a representative of the Russian avant-garde (d. 1937)
• January 24  - Arkady Shvetsov, aircraft engine designer (d. 1953)
• January 24  - Pyotr Solodukhin, military figure and Bolshevik division commander in the Russian Civil War (d. 1920)
• January 25  - Kamilla Trever, historian, numismatist and orientalist (d. 1974)
• January 28  - Fyodor Raskolnikov, politician, writer, journalist, commander of Red fleets and a Soviet diplomat (d. 1939)
• January 28  - Ivan Tyulenev, military commander (d. 1978)
• February 2  - Boris Kuftin, archaeologist and ethnographer (d. 1953)
• February 5  - Fyodor Borisov, cyclist (d. 1964)
• February 6  - Ivan Loiko, flying ace (d. unknown)
• February 7  - Vasily Butusov, football player (d. 1971)
• February 8  - Fyodor Astakhov, Marshal of Aviation (d. 1966)
• February 14  - Maria Vorobyeva-Stebelska, also known as Marie Vorobieff or Marevna, a painter known for her work with Cubism and pointillism (d. 1984)
• February 18  - Alexander Serebrovsky, geneticist, poultry breeder, and eugenicist (d. 1948)
• February 24 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (d. 1977)
• February 25  - Alexander Chervyakov, politician and revolutionary (d. 1937)
• February 26  - Pyotr Baranovsky, architect, preservationist and restorator (d. 1984)
• February 26  - Nikolai Orlov, pianist (d. 1964)
• March 1  - Nikolai Nevsky, linguist (d. 1937)
• March 2  - Georgi Atarbekov, security police official (d. 1925)
• March 4  - Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov, film director and screenwriter (d. 1965)
• March 4  - Nikolai Kondratiev, economist and proponent of the New Economic Policy (NEP) (d. 1938)
• March 5  - Kasyan Goleizovsky, choreographer and dancer (d. 1970)
• March 8  - Gyulboor Davydova, winegrower (d. 1983)
• March 13  - Yevgeniy Terletskiy, politician, member of the Russian Constituent Assembly, People Commissar (narkom) of Justice, diplomat (d. 1938)
• March 14  - Antonina Sofronova, artist and illustrator (d. 1966)
• March 21  - Aleksandr Malyshkin, writer (d. 1938)
• March 25  - Helena Antipoff, psychologist (d. 1974)
• March 25  - Alexander Poniatoff, electrical engineer (d. 1980)
• March 25  - Konstantin Zel'in, historian of classical antiquity (d. 1983)
• April 2  - Xenia Denikina, writer, Anton Denikin's wife (d. 1973)
• April 6  - Nikita Naidenov, speed skater (d. 1961)
• April 18  - Dmitrii Menshov, mathematician (d. 1988)
• April 19  - Georgy Adamovich, poet of the acmeist school, and a literary critic, translator and memoirist (d. 1972)
• April 22  - Nikolai Obukhov, composer (d. 1964)
• April 24  - Mikhail Skorodumov, general (d. 1963)
• May 9  - Nikolai Khodataev, artist, sculptor and animator, one of the founders of the Soviet animation industry (d. 1979)
• May 14  - Arthur Lourié, composer, writer, administrator, and musical agent (d. 1966)
• May 30  - Konstantin Ostrovityanov, Marxist economist, academic and public figure (d. 1969)
• May 30  - Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, writer and journalist (d. 1975)
• May 31  - Konstantin Paustovsky, writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 (d. 1968)
• June 6  - Alexander Kapitokhin, Lieutenant general (d. 1958)
• June 9  - Nikolai Polikarpov, aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer (d. 1944)
• June 13  - Valeria Barsova, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
• June 21  - Nikolai Gorbunov, politician, chemist, engineer and academic (d. 1970)
• July 8  - Pavel Korin, painter and art restorer (d. 1967)
• July 8  - Aleksandr Porokhovschikov, military engineer, tank and aircraft inventor (d. 1941)
• July 12  - Léon Zack, painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
• July 13  - Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Bolshevik revolutionary (d. 1940)
• July 29  - Pyotr Romanovsky, chess player and author (d. 1964)
• August 6  - Sergei Bessonov, state, public and party activist and diplomat (d. 1941)
• August 12  - Boris Lavrentiev, histologist (d. 1944)
• August 13  - Yuri Jobbers (Georgiy Maklakov), teacher and a Catholic convert from Russian Orthodoxy (d. 1969)
• August 15  - Ivan Boldin, a senior Red Army general (d. 1965)
• August 15  - Stepan Oborin, Red Army major general (d. 1941)
• August 19  - Elizabeth Kozlova, ornithologist (d. 1975)
• August 27  - Alexander Chuhaldin, violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator (d. 1951)
• September 19  - Nina Niss-Goldman, painter, sculptor and a teacher (d. 1990)
• September 22  - Pyotr Baranov, a military commander and politician, one of the main creators and organisers of the Air Force and the aircraft industry of the Soviet Union (d. 1933)
• September 30  - Andrey Khrulyov, military commander (d. 1962)
• October 1  - Mikhail Pronin, major general (d. 1978)
• October 5  - Pyotr Suvchinsky, artistic patron and writer on music (d. 1985)
• October 8  - Marina Tsvetaeva, poetess of the Silver Age, prose writer, translator (d. 1941)
• October 12  - Yevgeny Korovin, jurist specializing in international law (d. 1964)
• October 20  - Sergei Tomkeieff, geologist and petrologist who won the Geological Society's Lyell Medal (d. 1968)
• October 21  - Lydia Lopokova, ballerina (d. 1981)
• October 21  - Yuri Terapiano, poet, writer, translator, literary critic and a prominent figure in White émigré cultural life (d. 1980)
• October 24  - Jaan Lukas, military personnel (d. 1953)
• October 26  - Andrey Chekharin, Red Army colonel (d. 1941)
• October 31  - Alexander Alekhine, chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion (d. 1946)
• November 10  - Diodor Kolpinskiy, Eastern Catholic priest (d. 1932)
• November 14  - Ernest Drezen, Esperantist and engineer (d. 1937)
• November 17  - Nikandr Chibisov, Soviet Army colonel general (d. 1959)
• November 20  - Mikhail Rusakov, geologist (d. 1963)
• November 23  - Rudolf Sivers, revolutionary and military leader (d. 1918)
• November 24  - Dmitri Skobeltsyn, physicist (d. 1990)
• November 27  - Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia, the son of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich (d. 1914)
• November 28  - Tarlan Aliyarbayov, military officer (d. 1956)
• December 2  - Boris Shimeliovich, revolutionary and the medical director of Moscow's Botkin Hospital (d. 1952)
• December 5  - Mykola Barsamov, architect, preservationist and restorator (d. 1976)
• December 9  - Vsevolod Balitsky, a Soviet official, Commissar of State Security 1st Class of the NKVD (d. 1937)
• December 16  - Boris Gusman, author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda (d. 1944)
• December 18  - Mykola Kulish, prose writer, playwright, pedagogue, veteran of World War I (d. 1937)
• December 18  - Michael Visaroff, actor (d. 1951)
• December 23  - Sarra Lebedeva, sculptor (d. 1967)
• December 26  - Konstantin Tretiakoff, neuropathologist (d. 1958)
• December 29  - Aleksandr Arkhangelsky, aircraft designer (d. 1978)

Deaths

• January 8  - Nikolay Ilminsky, professor of Turkic languages (b. 1822)
• January 11  - Sofya Bogomolets, a revolutionary and political prisoner (b. 1856)
• January 16  - Mikhail Semevsky, historian (b. 1837)
• January 25  - Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, the second son of Nicholas I and Charlotte of Prussia, the Emperor's Viceroy of Poland and a general admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy (b. 1825)
• February 13  - Wilhelm Junker, Doctor of Medicine, geographer and traveller, one of the first Russian explorers of Africa (b. 1840)
• February 29  - Evgraf Sorokin, artist and teacher (b. 1821)
• March 3  - Andrey Denyer, portrait photographer and artist (b. 1820)
• March 15  - Fedor Solntsev, painter, art restorer, architect, and historian (b. 1801)
• March 15  - Mikhail Znamensky, a Russian writer, memoirist, painter, caricaturist, archeologist and ethnographer (b. 1833)
• April 21  - Ivan Shamshev, an Imperial Russian lieutenant general, adjutant general and division commander (b. 1819)
• May 16  - Ekaterina Beketova, poet, writer, and translator (b. 1855)
• May 24  - Nikolai Karonin-Petropavlovsky, writer, essayist, and political activist (b. 1853)
• June 1  - Pyotr Gruzinsky, painter (b. 1837)
• June 11  - Nikolai Skadovsky, painter (b. 1845)
• June 25  - Jan Czerski, paleontologist, osteologist, geologist, geographer and explorer of Siberia (b. 1845)
• July 25  - Sergei Tretyakov, philanthropist and patron of the arts, who co-founded the Tretyakov Gallery with his brother Pavel Tretyakov (b. 1834)
• August 3  - Johann August Nauck, a German classical scholar and critic (b. 1822)
• September 16  - Judah Leib Gordon, poet (b. 1830)
• November 16  - Alexey Galakhov, author and literary historian (b. 1807)
• November 19  - Viktor Klyushnikov, writer, editor and journalist (b. 1841)
• December 3  - Afanasy Fet, lyric poet and translator, memoirist, Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, prose writer (b. 1820)
• December 26  - Martha von Sabinin, public figure, composer and pianist, founder of the Russian Red Cross (b. 1831)