Events from the year 1805 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander I
Events
Russo-Persian War (1804–1813) May 14: Treaty of Kurakchay - Karabakh Khanate vassalized May 21: Shaki Khanate vassalized July 3–27: Karyagin's Raid October 20: Shoragel sultanate surrenders December 27: Shirvan Khanate submits War of the Third Coalition against France April 11: Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1805), Russia joins the alliance Hanover Expedition - alliance occupation of the Electorate of Hanover October 30: Battle of Mehrnbach October 31: Battle of Lambach November 3: Treaty of Potsdam (1805), Prussia to join alliance if negotiations with France failed November 5: Battle of Amstetten November 11: Battle of Dürenstein November 16: Battle of Schöngrabern November 28: Battle of Wischau December 2: Battle of Austerlitz Russo-Tlingit War (1802-1805) Tlingit destroy New Russia (trading post) Moscow Society of Naturalists founded Kharkov National Medical University founded Alexander Garden (Saint Petersburg) designed Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Mary (Saint Petersburg) built Second Saint Petersburg Gymnasium founded Yakutsk Oblast established
Births
Modest Ivanovich Bogdanovich, general and military historian (d. 1882) Nikanor Chernetsov, landscape painter (d. 1879) Solomon Dodashvili, Georgian writer and educator (d. 1836) Philaret Gumilevsky, Orthodox archbishop and church historian (d. 1866) Aleksandra Ishimova, translator and children's author (d. 1881) Pyotr Karatygin, actor, playwright, and writer (d. 1879) Andreas Roller, German born painter and set designer (d. 1891) Nikolay Ustryalov, historian (d. 1870) Illarion Vasilchikov, general (d. 1862) Dmitry Venevitinov, poet (d. 1827) Mariya Volkonskaya, wife of Decembrist Prince Sergey Volkonsky (d. 1863) Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, sculptor (d. 1867) Vasily Zhivokini, comic actor (d. 1874) Maria Zhukova, writer (d. 1855)
Deaths
Pyotr Drozhdin, painter (b. 1745) Jacob Stepanovich Esipov, investor and businessman (b. ?) Anna Lopukhina, mistress of Paul I of Russia (b. 1777) Apollo Mussin-Pushkin, chemist and plant collector (b. 1760) Ivan Pnin, poet and political writer (b. 1773) Ivan Saltykov, field marshal, governor-general of Moscow (b. 1730) Fedot Shubin, sculptor (b. 1740) Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen, noble, aide-de-camp to Alexander I (b. 1782) Alexander Vorontsov, diplomat and Chancellor (b. 1741) Nikolay Alexandrovich Zubov, soldier, courtier, regicide (b. 1763)
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