Here are the events from the year 1846 in Russia.
Incumbents Monarch – Nicholas I
Events
A wealthy landowner, Nikolai Bakhmetev, constructs a stone church, which would eventually be built into the Annunciation Monastery (Tolyatti) in Samara Oblast On January 15, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel "Poor Folk" was published in the St. Petersburg Collection almanac, which was a significant moment in Russian literature that foreshadowed deeper social critiques. The Double was first published in the Otechestvennye zapiski on 30 January, which was Fyodor Dostoevsky's second novel. The Petrashevsky Circle, organized by Mikhail Petrashevsky, was active in the 1840s (founded in 1845) and by 1846 it existed as a gathering of intellectuals. A devastating potato disease hit the Russian Empire. However, it was supposed to shield the peasants against famine.
Births January–June
23 January – Nikolay Umov, Physicist and mathematician (d. 15 January 1915) 9 May – Nicolai Soloviev, composer (d. 27 December 1916)
30 May – Peter Carl Farbergé, Jeweler (d. 24 September 1920)
July–December
3 July – Achilles Alferaki, composer (d. 27 December 1919)
August 16 – Oskar Victorovich Stark, Russian admiral and explorer (d. 1928) September 25 – Wladimir Köppen, Russian-German geographer, climatologist (d. 1940) 23 October – Alexander Arkhangelsky, composer (d. 16 November 1924) December 21 – Julia Lermontova, Russian chemist (d. 1919)
Deaths
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