Events from the year 1804 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander I
Events
Russo-Tlingit War (1802-1805) Battle of Sitka Russo-Persian War (1804–1813) January - Siege of Ganja (1804) June - Battle of Echmiadzin (1804) July - September - Siege of Erivan (1804) Imperial Kazan University established Molotschna founded; largest Russian Mennonite colony Moscow Armenian Cemetery founded Mtiuleti rebellion Kingdom of Imereti becomes a Russian vassal Tomsk Governorate established
Births
Alexander Bantyshev, tenor opera singer, composer (d. 1860) Aleksander Chodźko, poet, Iranologist, and Slavist (d. 1891) Dorothea de Ficquelmont, writer and salonist (d. 1863) Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer and founder of the Russian nationalist school of classical music. (d. 1857) Aleksey Khomyakov, theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist; co-founded the Slavophile movement. (d. 1860) Mykhailo Maksymovych, botanist, historian, and writer (d. 1873) Mykola Markevych, historian, ethnographer (d. 1860) Nikolai Melgunov, writer, translator, and music critic (d. 1867) Pavel Petrovich Melnikov - Transport Minister, important in early railroad construction (d. 1880) Józef Mianowski - Polish doctor, medical researcher, academic administrator (d. 1879) Lyubov Mlotkovskaya - actress (d. 1866) Nikolai Nadezhdin - literary critic, ethnographer (d. 1856) Carl Timoleon von Neff - Baltic German artist (d. 1877) Aleksandr Nikitenko - Ukrainian literary historian, professor, imperial censor, and diarist (d. 1877) Grigol Orbeliani - Georgian poet; imperial general and governor (d. 1883) Alexander Polezhayev - poet (d. 1838) Yakov Rostovtsev - general, helped draft regulations to emancipate the serfs (d. 1860) Gordiy Sablukov - Islamist and translator (d. 1880) Judah Idel Scherschewsky - Lithuanian Jewish Talmudist and Hebraist (d. 1866) Gregory Shuvalov - aristocrat and officer; Catholic convert Eduard de Stoeckl - diplomat (d. 1892) Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov - general, diplomat, and administrator Ekaterina Telesheva - ballerina (d. 1857) Sofya Urusova - lady-in-waiting, favorite of Nicholas I (d. 1889) Porphyrius Uspensky - theologian, orientalist, archaeologist (d. 1885) Nikolay Yevdokimov - general; responsible for Circassian genocide
Deaths
Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1727) Anna Matyushkina, courtier (b. 1722) Valentin Musin-Pushkin, general and administrator (b. 1735) Maxim Rehbinder, general (b. 1730) Semyon Shchedrin, landscape painter (b. 1745) Valerian Zubov, general (b. 1771)
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