Events from the year 1797 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Paul I
Events Third Partition of Poland Pauline Laws - house laws of the House of Romanov established April 5 – Manifesto of three-day corvee Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria Herzen University founded Saint Petersburg Theological Academy founded
Births Alexander Bestuzhev, Decembrist, writer (d. 1837) Dimitri Ivanovich Dolgorukov, diplomat and travelling companion of Washington Irving (d. 1867) Yelizaveta Golitsyna, noblewoman, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1844) Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. (d. 1879) Alexander Kazarsky, naval officer, war hero (d. 1833) Nikolay Dmitrievich Mylnikov, portrait painter (d. 1842) Arsena Odzelashvili, Georgian outlaw, (d. 1842) Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. (d. 1882)
Deaths Ivan Chernyshyov, diplomat and admiralty official (b. 1726) Ekaterina Kniazhnina, poet (b. 1746) Pyotr Melissino, General of the Artillery (b. 1726) Vasily Pashkevich, composer, singer, violinist, teacher (b. circa 1742) Alexei Senyavin, admiral (b. 1716) Ivan Shuvalov, first Russian Minister of Education (b. 1727)
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