The following article lists events that happened during the year 1799 in Russia.
Incumbents Monarch – Paul I
Events War of the Second Coalition - Featured Alexander Suvoruv's campaigns in Italy and Switzerland (see Campaigns of 1799 in the French Revolutionary Wars). March 3 - Siege of Corfu (1798–1799) ends with Corfu's surrender. Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799 April 27 - Battle of Cassano (1799) May 12 - Battle of Bassignana (1799) May 16 - First Battle of Marengo (1799) June 17–19 - Battle of Trebbia (1799) August 15 - Battle of Novi (1799) September 24–26 - Battle of Gotthard Pass September 25–26 - Second Battle of Zurich August 27 - November 19 - Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland September 19 - Battle of Bergen (1799) October 2 - Battle of Alkmaar (1799) October 6 - Battle of Castricum October 18 - Convention of Alkmaar July 8 - Ukase of 1799 founding Russian-American Company and delineating Russian claims.
Births Dmitry Bagration-Imeretinsky - member of former Georgian royal family, general (d. 1845) Avdotia Istomina - ballerina (d. 1848) Pyotr Kakhovsky - army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1826) January 9 - Arvid Adolf Etholén, navy officer, explorer, and official of the Russian-American Company (d. 1876) January 17 - Adolph Theodor Kupffer, Baltic German chemist and physicist (d. 1865) March 1 - Alexey Verstovsky, composer (d. 1862) May 8 - Konstantin Igelström, army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1851) May 26 – Alexander Pushkin - poet, playwright, and novelist (d. 1837) June 8 - Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Russo-German aristocrat (d. 1866) June 10 - Fyodor Bruni, artist (d. 1875) August 1 - Countess of Ségur, Franco-Russian writer (d. 1874) September 13 - Mikhail Lavrov, admiral and Arctic explorer (d. 1882) December 12 - Karl Bryullov, painter (d. 1852)
Deaths
Maria Zubova, poet, composer, and singer (b. 1749?) January 6 - Alexander Ivanovich Shilov, one of the founders of the Skoptsy sect (b. unknown) January 13 - Ivan Ivanovich Belsky, painter (b. 1719) April 6 - Alexander Bezborodko, statesman (b. 1747) May - Joasaph Bolotov, missionary and bishop of Kodiak (b. 1761) May 19 - N. P. Osipov, writer, poet, and translator (b. 1751) August 2 - Vasily Bazhenov, architect (b. 1737 or 1738)
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