1799 in Russia

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The following article lists events that happened during the year 1799 in Russia.

Incumbents

July 8 - Ukase of 1799 founding Russian-American Company and deliniating Russian claims

Dmitry Bagration-Imeretinsky - member of former Georgian royal family, general (d. 1845)
Avdotia Istomina - ballerina (d. 1848)
Pyotr Kakhovsky - army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1826)
January 9 - Arvid Adolf Etholén, navy officer, explorer, and official of the Russian-American Company (d. 1876)
January 17 - Adolph Theodor Kupffer, Baltic German chemist and physicist (d. 1865)
March 1 - Alexey Verstovsky, composer (d. 1862)
May 8 - Konstantin Igelström, army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1851)
May 26 – Alexander Pushkin - poet, playwright, and novelist (d. 1837)^[3]
June 8 - Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Russo-German aristocrat (d. 1866)
June 10 - Fyodor Bruni, artist (d. 1875)
August 1 - Countess of Ségur, Franco-Russian writer (d. 1874)
September 13 - Mikhail Lavrov, admiral and Arctic explorer (d. 1882)
December 12 - Karl Bryullov, painter (d. 1852)

Maria Zubova, poet, composer, and singer (b. 1749?)
January 6 - Alexander Ivanovich Shilov, one of the founders of the Skoptsy sect (b. unknown)
January 13 - Ivan Ivanovich Belsky, painter (b. 1719)
April 6 - Alexander Bezborodko, statesman (b. 1747)
May - Joasaph Bolotov, missionary and bishop of Kodiak (b. 1761)
May 19 - N. P. Osipov, writer, poet, and translator (b. 1751)
August 2 - Vasily Bazhenov, architect (b. 1737 or 1738)