1861 in Russia

Events from the year 1861 in Russia

Incumbents Monarch – Alexander II

Events 27 February – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule, killing 5 protesters. 3 March (February 19 O.S.) – Emancipation reform of 1861: Serfdom is abolished. 13 March – Tsushima incident: the Russian corvette Posadnik arrives at Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait, Japan, provoking a reaction from the Japan. 24 April (N.S.) – Bezdna in Russia is the scene of a peasant uprising; the military open fire and nearly 5000 are killed.http://education.cambridge.org/media/577146 "Imperial Russia, revolutions_and_the_emergence_of_the_Soviet_state" . Accessed 11 March 2013 21 May – Russian sailors clash with Japanese samurai and farmers at Tsushima island.Negotiating with Imperialism, Michael R. Auslin, p. 79

Births

6 February - Nikolay Zelinsky, chemist 12 July - Anton Arensky, composer of Romantic classical music 29 October - Andrei Ryabushkin, painter

16 November - Arvid Järnefelt, Finnish author (d. 1932) 5 December - Konstantin Korovin, impressionist painter

Deaths 10 March - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and writer 29 November - Nikolay Dobrolyubov, philosopher and revolutionary

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