Events from the year 1796 in Russia.
Incumbents Monarch – Catherine II (until November 17), Paul I (after November 17)
Events
Persian Expedition of 1796 Storming of Derbent - May 10 Alexander Palace completed Gomel Palace completed New Russia trading post established in what is modernly Yakutat, Alaska Ulyanovsk (then "Simbirsk") granted city status Vsevolod, a 74-gun ship of the line, launched
Births Nicholas I of Russia, monarch (d. 1855) Pavel Petrovich Anosov, mining engineer, governor, and general (d. 1851) Alexander Bagration-Imeretinsky, Georgian prince, Russian general Nikolai Brashman, mathematician (d. 1866) Nikolai Lukash, general and civil servant (d. 1868) Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Decembrist (d. 1826) Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, civil servant and statesman (d. 1866) Nikita Muravyov, Decembrist (d. 1843) Yevgeny Obolensky, Decembrist (d. 1865) Nikolai Polevoy, editor, writer, historian (d. 1846) Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist (d. 1863)
Deaths Catherine II, monarch (born 1729) Nikolay Arsenyev, general (b. circa 1739) Juvenaly of Alaska, Russian Orthodox martyr (b. 1761) Ermil Kostrov, poet and translator (b. 1755) Andrei Miloradovich, general and governor (b. 1727) Pavel Potemkin, soldier, statesman, writer (b. 1743) Gavriil Pribylov, navigator Pyotr Rumyantsev, general, (born 1725)
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