Events from the year 1896 in Russia.
Incumbents Monarch – Nicholas II
Events
1896 World Figure Skating Championships All-Russia Exhibition 1896 Khodynka Tragedy Ādolfs Alunāns Theatre Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II
Births January 2 – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (d. 1954). April 15 – Nikolay Semyonov, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986). June 29 – Boris Podolsky, physicist (d. 1966). August 9 – Léonide Massine, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1979). August 27 – Leon Theremin, inventor (d. 1993). October 17 – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (d. 1978). November 17 – Lev Vygotsky, psychologist (d. 1934). December 1 – Georgi Zhukov, military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974). December 12 – Vasily Gordov, general (d. 1950).
Deaths
13 October – Alexander Theodorowicz Batalin, botanist (b. 1847)
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