Events from the year 1802 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander I
Establishments Manifesto on the Establishment of Ministries, which established: Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire Ministry of National Education (Russian Empire) Ministry of War of the Russian Empire Tartu University Library Imperial Philanthropic Society Moscow School of the Order of St Catherine Caucasus Governorate Chernigov Governorate Kherson Governorate Poltava Governorate Taurida Governorate Vitebsk Governorate Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Births Aharon of Karlin (II), Hasidic rabbi (d. 1872) Irakly Baratynsky, general and statesman (d. 1859) Alexey Buturlin, soldier and statesman (d. 1863) Grigory Chernetsov, painter (d. 1865) Konstantin Chevkin, general, Minister of Transport 1855-1862 (d. 1875) Boris Chorikov, artist and illustrator (d. 1866) Praskovya Alexandrovna Hendrikova, noblewoman and court figure (d. 1843) Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist, and philologist (d. 1870) Alexandra Kolosova, actor and writer (d. 1880) Ivan Krasnov, general and writer (d. 1871) Nikolai Kristofari, helped create Russian banking system (d. 1881) Nikifor Krylov, painter (d. 1831) Nikolai Lavrov, opera singer (d. 1840) Alexey Tarasovich Markov, painter and academic (d. 1878) Pavel Nakhimov, admiral and war hero (d. 1855) Jacob Netsvetov, Orthodox missionary in Alaska (d. 1864) Alexander Odoevsky, poet, playwright, Decembrist (d. 1839) Alexander Orbeliani, Georgian poet and journalist (d. 1869) Mikhail Tebenkov, vice admiral, hydrographer (d. 1872) Yegor Tolstoy, general, governor, and senator (d. 1874) Mikhail Yuzefovich, educator known for efforts to suppress Ukrainian (d. 1889)
Deaths Franz Aepinus, German mathematician and scientist (b. 1724) Ivan Argunov, painter (b. 1729) Mikhail Kozlovsky, sculptor (b. 1753) Ivan Lepyokhin, naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer (b. 1740) Alexander Radishchev, writer and social critic (b. 1749) Darya Petrovna Saltykova, noblewoman and court figure (b. 1739)
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