Events from the year 1803 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander I
Events
Demidov Lyceum founded in Jaroslavl. Mingrelia becomes a Russian subject. August 7 - Expedition to accomplish first Russian circumnavigation of the earth begins. November 22 - Siege of Ganja begins
Births
Benzion Judah Berkowitz (d. 1879), Hebrew scholar Miron Cherepanov (d. 1849), engineer and inventor Alexander Grigorievich Fischer von Waldheim (d. 1884), botanist Aleksander Gurilyov (d. 1858), pianist, violinist, and composer Gregor von Helmersen (d. 1885), Baltic German geologist Evgeniya Maykova (d. 1880), writer and poet Vladimir Odoyevsky (d. 1869), philosopher, writer, and music critic Nikolai Pavlov (d. 1864), writer, publisher, and editor Aleksander Pisarev (d. 1828), playwright and theatre critic Serge Poltoratzky (d. 1884), literary scholar and bibliophile Yevfimiy Putyatin (d. 1883), admiral Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets (d. 1870), mining engineer Yuliya Samoylova (d. 1875), countess Gregory Shchurovsky (d. 1884), geologist Dmitri Sheremetev (d. 1871), aristocrat Dmitry Sontsov (d. 1875), numismatist Fyodor Tyutchev (d. 1873), poet and diplomat Stepan Vasiliyevich Voyevodsky (d. 1884), admiral, governor of Russian America and Astrakhan Nikolay Yazykov (d. 1846), poet
Deaths
Ippolit Bogdanovich (b. 1744), poet Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov (b. 1758), lover of Catherine II of Russia Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (b. 1784), daughter of Paul I of Russia Pavel Fonvizin (b. 1746), educator, scholar, and writer Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn (b. 1728), diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist, mineralogist Gavriil Kamenev (b. 1772), Romantic poet, writer, and translator Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova (b. 1768), opera singer and actress Nikolay Lvov (b. 1753), architect, ethnographer, polymath Maria Nesselrode (b. 1786), courtier Sophia Razumovskaya (b. 1746), courtier Kirill Razumovsky (b. 1728), statesman Vasily Rodchev (b. 1768), painter Xenia of Saint Petersburg, (born c. 1719-1730), Orthodox saint
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