Events from the year 1806 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander I
Events
War of the Third Coalition ends Russo-Persian War (1804–1813) February 20: Death of Russian commander Pavel Tsitsianov October 6: Capture of Baku War of the Fourth Coalition begins December 23: Battle of Czarnowo December 26: Battle of Pułtusk December 26: Battle of Golymin Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) begins in December August 1806: First Russian circumnavigation of the earth completed Alexander I Palace (Taganrog) built St Petersburg College for the Deaf founded Saint-Petersburg Elizabethan Institute founded.
Births
Levko Borovykovsky, Ukrainian poet, translator, and folklorist (d. 1889) Alecu Donici, Moldavian poet and translator (b. 1865) Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexandrovna of Russia, child of Alexander I (d. 1808) Georg Albert Fuss, astronomer (d. 1854) Josef Gusikov, Belarusian-Jewish klezmer musician (d. 1837) Lionel Kieseritzky, Baltic German chess master and theoretician (d. 1853) Ivan Kireyevsky, literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856) Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, vice admiral (d. 1854) Alexander Koshelev, writer, journalist, and public official (d. 1883) Ismayil bek Kutkashensky, Armenian major general in the Russian army and writer (d. 1861) Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, painter (d. 1858) Ferdinand Minding, German-born mathematician (d. 1885) Pylyp Morachevskyi, Ukrainian poet and bible translator (d. 1879) Olga Alexandrovna Orlova, state lady of the court and numismatist (d. 1880) Osip Petrov, operatic bass-baritone (d. 1878) Dmitriy Vasilevich Polenov, archaeologist (d. 1878) Isaac Judah Loeb Rabinowitz, Lithuanian Jewish rabbi and scholar (d. 1851) Prince Alexey Saltykov, diplomat, artist, traveller (d. 1859) Stepan Shevyryov, literary historian and poet (d. 1864) Oleksa Storozhenko, writer, anthropologist, and playwright (d. 1874) Count Ivan Matveyevich Tolstoy, diplomat, senator, court official, minister of postal services (d. 1867) Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg, Baltic German novelist, poet, and painter (d. 1869) Yusuf bek Kurinski, last khan of Kura Khanate, major general (d. 1878)
Deaths
Peter Petrovich Dolgorukov, nobleman and general (b. 1777) Adam Laxman, military officer led 1791 expedition to Japan (b. 1766) Elena von Rehbinder, industrialist (b. 1744) Pavel Tsitsianov, Georgian noble, Russian army general (b. 1754) Count Sergey Yaguzhinsky, court official, officer, factory owner (b. 1731)
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