1892 in Russia

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Cossack patrol preventing peasants from leaving their village, 1892

Events from the year 1892 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander III^[1]

Events

• The discovery of viruses by Dmitri Ivanovsky
• The creation of Mir Bozhiy
• Diamond Trellis Egg
• Franco-Russian Alliance
• Russian famine of 1891–92
• The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
• Iolanta by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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, poet 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)

References

1. Etty, John (2009). Primary Sources in Russian History. First and Best in Education. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-86083-769-2. Retrieved 2025-11-23.

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