1863 in Russia (Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander II) was marked by significant internal and international developments, primarily dominated by the outbreak and early suppression of a major rebellion in the western territories.
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander II
Events
Apraksin Dvor Pavel Military School Vremya (magazine) Tolstoy took five years (1863–1869) to complete his epic. The January insurrection.
Births
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919) Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, heir presumptive to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Nestor Kotlyarevsky, author, literary critic Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy, religious philosopher Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin, zoologist Aleksandr Golovin (artist) Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner Basil Belavin was born in 1865.
Deaths
Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist Mikhail Shchepkin, actor Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov, Major-General Jekaterina Saltykov, courtier (born 1791)
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