1892 in Russia

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Events from the year 1892 in Russia.

Cossack patrol preventing peasants from leaving their village, 1892

Incumbents

Monarch – Alexander III

Events

Births

January 4 – Pavel Medvedev, literary scholar (d. 1938)
January 10 – Vladimir Littauer, Russian equestrian trainer (d. 1989)
January 12 – Mikhail Kirponos, general of the Red Army (d. 1941)
January 17 – Igor Terentiev, poet, artist, stage director, and a representative of the Russian avant-garde (d. 1937)
January 24 – Arkady Shvetsov, aircraft engine designer (d. 1953)
January 24 – Pyotr Solodukhin, military figure and Bolshevik division commander in the Russian Civil War (d. 1920)
January 25 – Kamilla Trever, historian, numismatist and orientalist (d. 1974)
January 28 – Fyodor Raskolnikov, politician, writer, journalist, commander of Red fleets and a Soviet diplomat (d. 1939)
January 28 – Ivan Tyulenev, military commander (d. 1978)
February 2 – Boris Kuftin, archaeologist and ethnographer (d. 1953)
February 5 – Fyodor Borisov, cyclist (d. 1964)
February 6 – Ivan Loiko, flying ace (d. unknown)
February 7 – Vasily Butusov, football player (d. 1971)
February 8 – Fyodor Astakhov, Marshal of Aviation (d. 1966)
February 14 – Maria Vorobyeva-Stebelska, also known as Marie Vorobieff or Marevna, a painter known for her work with Cubism and pointillism (d. 1984)
February 18 – Alexander Serebrovsky, geneticist, poultry breeder, and eugenicist (d. 1948)
February 24 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (d. 1977)
February 25 – Alexander Chervyakov, politician and revolutionary (d. 1937)
February 26 – Pyotr Baranovsky, architect, preservationist and restorator (d. 1984)
February 26 – Nikolai Orlov, pianist (d. 1964)
March 1 – Nikolai Nevsky, linguist (d. 1937)
March 2 – Georgi Atarbekov, security police official (d. 1925)
March 4 – Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov, film director and screenwriter (d. 1965)
March 4 – Nikolai Kondratiev, economist and proponent of the New Economic Policy (NEP) (d. 1938)
March 5 – Kasyan Goleizovsky, choreographer and dancer (d. 1970)
March 8 – Gyulboor Davydova, winegrower (d. 1983)
March 13 – Yevgeniy Terletskiy, politician, member of the Russian Constituent Assembly, People Commissar (narkom) of Justice, diplomat (d. 1938)
March 14 – Antonina Sofronova, artist and illustrator (d. 1966)
March 21 – Aleksandr Malyshkin, writer (d. 1938)
March 25 – Helena Antipoff, psychologist (d. 1974)
March 25 – Alexander Poniatoff, electrical engineer (d. 1980)
March 25 – Konstantin Zel'in, historian of classical antiquity (d. 1983)
April 2 – Xenia Denikina, writer, Anton Denikin's wife (d. 1973)
April 6 – Nikita Naidenov, speed skater (d. 1961)
April 18 – Dmitrii Menshov, mathematician (d. 1988)
April 19 – Georgy Adamovich, poet of the acmeist school, and a literary critic, translator and memoirist (d. 1972)
April 22 – Nikolai Obukhov, composer (d. 1964)
April 24 – Mikhail Skorodumov, general (d. 1963)
May 9 – Nikolai Khodataev, artist, sculptor and animator, one of the founders of the Soviet animation industry (d. 1979)
May 14 – Arthur Lourié, composer, writer, administrator, and musical agent (d. 1966)
May 30 – Konstantin Ostrovityanov, Marxist economist, academic and public figure (d. 1969)
May 30 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, writer and journalist (d. 1975)
May 31 – Konstantin Paustovsky, writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 (d. 1968)
June 6 – Alexander Kapitokhin, Lieutenant general (d. 1958)
June 9 – Nikolai Polikarpov, aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer (d. 1944)
June 13 – Valeria Barsova, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
June 21 – Nikolai Gorbunov, politician, chemist, engineer and academic (d. 1970)
July 8 – Pavel Korin, painter and art restorer (d. 1967)
July 8 – Aleksandr Porokhovschikov, military engineer, tank and aircraft inventor (d. 1941)
July 12 – Léon Zack, painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
July 13 – Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Bolshevik revolutionary (d. 1940)
July 29 – Pyotr Romanovsky, chess player and author (d. 1964)
August 6 – Sergei Bessonov, state, public and party activist and diplomat (d. 1941)
August 12 – Boris Lavrentiev, histologist (d. 1944)
August 13 – Yuri Jobbers (Georgiy Maklakov), teacher and a Catholic convert from Russian Orthodoxy (d. 1969)
August 15 – Ivan Boldin, a senior Red Army general (d. 1965)
August 15 – Stepan Oborin, Red Army major general (d. 1941)
August 19 – Elizabeth Kozlova, ornithologist (d. 1975)
August 27 – Alexander Chuhaldin, violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator (d. 1951)
September 19 – Nina Niss-Goldman, painter, sculptor and a teacher (d. 1990)
September 22 – Pyotr Baranov, a military commander and politician, one of the main creators and organisers of the Air Force and the aircraft industry of the Soviet Union (d. 1933)
September 30 – Andrey Khrulyov, military commander (d. 1962)
October 1 – Mikhail Pronin, major general (d. 1978)
October 5 – Pyotr Suvchinsky, artistic patron and writer on music (d. 1985)
October 8 – Marina Tsvetaeva, poetess of the Silver Age, prose writer, translator (d. 1941)
October 12 – Yevgeny Korovin, jurist specializing in international law (d. 1964)
October 20 – Sergei Tomkeieff, geologist and petrologist who won the Geological Society's Lyell Medal (d. 1968)
October 21 – Lydia Lopokova, ballerina (d. 1981)
October 21 – Yuri Terapiano, poet, writer, translator, literary critic and a prominent figure in White émigré cultural life (d. 1980)
October 24 – Jaan Lukas, military personnel (d. 1953)
October 26 – Andrey Chekharin, Red Army colonel (d. 1941)
October 31 – Alexander Alekhine, chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion (d. 1946)
November 10 – Diodor Kolpinskiy, Eastern Catholic priest (d. 1932)
November 14 – Ernest Drezen, Esperantist and engineer (d. 1937)
November 17 – Nikandr Chibisov, Soviet Army colonel general (d. 1959)
November 20 – Mikhail Rusakov, geologist (d. 1963)
November 23 – Rudolf Sivers, revolutionary and military leader (d. 1918)
November 24 – Dmitri Skobeltsyn, physicist (d. 1990)
November 27 – Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia, the son of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich (d. 1914)
November 28 – Tarlan Aliyarbayov, military officer (d. 1956)
December 2 – Boris Shimeliovich, revolutionary and the medical director of Moscow's Botkin Hospital (d. 1952)
December 5 – Mykola Barsamov, architect, preservationist and restorator (d. 1976)
December 9 – Vsevolod Balitsky, a Soviet official, Commissar of State Security 1st Class of the NKVD (d. 1937)
December 16 – Boris Gusman, author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda (d. 1944)
December 18 – Mykola Kulish, prose writer, playwright, pedagogue, veteran of World War I (d. 1937)
December 18 – Michael Visaroff, actor (d. 1951)
December 23 – Sarra Lebedeva, sculptor (d. 1967)
December 26 – Konstantin Tretiakoff, neuropathologist (d. 1958)
December 29 – Aleksandr Arkhangelsky, aircraft designer (d. 1978)

Deaths

January 8 – Nikolay Ilminsky, professor of Turkic languages (b. 1822)
January 11 – Sofya Bogomolets, a revolutionary and political prisoner (b. 1856)
January 16 – Mikhail Semevsky, historian (b. 1837)
January 25 – Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, the second son of Nicholas I and Charlotte of Prussia, the Emperor's Viceroy of Poland and a general admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy (b. 1825)
February 13 – Wilhelm Junker, Doctor of Medicine, geographer and traveller, one of the first Russian explorers of Africa (b. 1840)
February 29 – Evgraf Sorokin, artist and teacher (b. 1821)
March 3 – Andrey Denyer, portrait photographer and artist (b. 1820)
March 15 – Fedor Solntsev, painter, art restorer, architect, and historian (b. 1801)
March 15 – Mikhail Znamensky, a Russian writer, memoirist, painter, caricaturist, archeologist and ethnographer (b. 1833)
April 21 – Ivan Shamshev, an Imperial Russian lieutenant general, adjutant general and division commander (b. 1819)
May 16 – Ekaterina Beketova, poet, writer, and translator (b. 1855)
May 24 – Nikolai Karonin-Petropavlovsky, writer, essayist, and political activist (b. 1853)
June 1 – Pyotr Gruzinsky, painter (b. 1837)
June 11 – Nikolai Skadovsky, painter (b. 1845)
June 25 – Jan Czerski, paleontologist, osteologist, geologist, geographer and explorer of Siberia (b. 1845)
July 25 – Sergei Tretyakov, philanthropist and patron of the arts, who co-founded the Tretyakov Gallery with his brother Pavel Tretyakov (b. 1834)
August 3 – Johann August Nauck, a German classical scholar and critic (b. 1822)
September 16 – Judah Leib Gordon, poet (b. 1830)
November 16 – Alexey Galakhov, author and literary historian (b. 1807)
November 19 – Viktor Klyushnikov, writer, editor and journalist (b. 1841)
December 3 – Afanasy Fet, lyric poet and translator, memoirist, Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, prose writer (b. 1820)
December 26 – Martha von Sabinin, public figure, composer and pianist, founder of the Russian Red Cross (b. 1831)

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