Events from the year 1790 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Catherine II
Events Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) May 17–18: Battle of Andros (1790) July 19: Battle of Kerch Strait (1790) September 8–9: Battle of Tendra December 22: Conclusion of Siege of Izmail Russo-Swedish War (1788–90) April 29: Battle of Valkeala April 30: Battle of Partakoski May 13: Battle of Reval May 15: Battle of Fredrikshamn May 19–20: Battle of Keltis June 3: Battle of Savitaipale June 3–4: Battle of Kronstadt June 16: Battle of Uransari July 2–3: Battle of Björkösund July 4: Battle of Vyborg Bay (1790) July 9–10: Battle of Svensksund August 14: Treaty of Värälä Church of the Ascension (Chaltyr) founded Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra completed Kokushkin Bridge built Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Alexander Radishchev published
Births
Sima Babovich, Hakham of the Crimean Karaites Dmitry Buturlin, general, historian, censor Pyotr Yegorovich Chistyakov, explorer, admiral, fifth governor of Russian America Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov, nobleman, writer, and general Pyotr Gorchakov, general Ivan Liprandi, spy, general, memoirist Anastasia Novitskaya, ballerina Fedor Panyutin, general Platon Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, education minister (1850-1853) Mirza Jafar Topchubashev, Russian orientalist and poet from Azerbaijan Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, military officer and Decembrist organizer Alexander von Lüders, general Kapiton Zelentsov, artist and illustrator
Deaths
Ivan Ivanovich Möller-Sakomelsky, general Mikhail Ivanovich Popov, writer, poet, dramatist, librettist Mikhail Shcherbatov, historian, writer, philosopher, statesman Grigory Spiridov, admiral
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