Events from the year 1801 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Paul I (until 23 March), Alexander I (from 23 March)
Events September 8 - Solar eclipse of September 8, 1801 September 12 - Annexation of Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti confirmed October 8 - Treaty of Paris ends Russian participation in the War of the Second Coalition Indian March of Paul - attempted Russian attack on British India Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts founded Olonets Governorate Penza Governorate Caucasus Viceroyalty
Births
Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Decembrist (d. 1826) Vladimir Dal, doctor, official, lexicographer and folklorist (d. 1872) Alexander Gagarin, general and nobleman (d. 1857) Alexander von Güldenstubbe, Baltic German general (d. 1884) Grigory Karelin, explorer, naturalist (d. 1872) Nikolay Mozgalevsky, Decembrist (d. 1844) Mikhail Ostrogradsky, mathematician and physicist (d. 1862) Viktor Nikitich Panin, Minister of Justice 1841-1862 (d. 1862) Ksenofont Polevoy, writer, critic, translator (d. 1867) Alexander Polyakov, artist (d. 1835) Alexander Postels, naturalist, mineralogist (d. 1871) Fedor Solntsev, painter and art historian (d. 1892) Adam Rzewuski, Polish-Russian general (d. 1888) Pavel Solomirsky, businessman (d. 1861) Aleksandr Varlamov, composer of art songs (d. 1848) Moritz von Jacobi, German Jewish physicist and inventor (d. 1872)
Deaths Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, daughter of Paul I of Russia (b. 1783) Ivan Gannibal, general (b. 1735) Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev, Russo-Armenian banker (b. 1735) Vasily Petrovich Orlov, cavalry general, (b. 1745) Paul I of Russia, emperor (b. 1754) Nicholas Vasilyevich Repnin, statesman and general (b. 1734) Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, sadist and murderer (b. 1730) Johann Hermann von Fersen, Saxon-born general (b. circa 1740)
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