Events from the year 1901 in Russia.

Incumbents Monarch – Tsar Nicholas II Chairman of the Committee of Ministers – Ivan Durnovo

Events

January: The Socialist Revolutionary Party was founded in various cities across Russia.

26 May – Russian cruiser Boyarin launched without presence of the Imperial Russian Army. 7 September – End of the Boxer Rebellion.

Births 17 January – Aron Gurwitsch, a Litvak American phenomenologist. (died 1973) 4 February – Alexander Werth, writer, journalist, and war correspondent. (died 1969) 15 May – Boris Berman (chekist), chekist and leading member of the NKVD. 18 June – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II (died 1918) 20 June – Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia, elder daughter of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna of Russia who spent her life in exile (died 1974) 15 August – Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia, nephew of Tsar Nicholas II. (died 1980) 12 September Shmuel Hurwitz, Russian-born Israeli agronomist (died 1999) Andrey Vlasov, Russian general of Red Army who later led the Russian Liberation Army against the U.S.S.R. (died 1946) 22 September – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (died 1932) 19 November – Nina Bari, mathematician (died 1961) 10 December Vladimir Boyarsky, a collaborator with Nazi Germany during World War II, serving in Andrey Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army. (died 1945) Karandash, famous Soviet clown and was the teacher of the famous Russian clowns Oleg Popov and Yuri Nikulin. (died 1983) 22 December – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born American popular orchestral music conductor and arranger. (died 1980)

Deaths Aleksey Alchevsky, Ukrainian entrepreneur who founded the first finance group in Russia. (born 1835) Sergei Mihailovich Dukhovskoi, military officer. (born 1838) 15 January – Maria Skorsiuk, ballet dancer (born 1872) 12 March – Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kozlov, philosopher (born 1831) 15 March – Nikolay Bogolepov, jurist and Minister of National enlightenment. (born 1846) 12 August – Nikolay Baranov, lieutenant general, Mayor of Saint Petersburg, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod and Arkhangelsk, and Senator. (born 1837)

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