Events from the year 1889 in Russia.
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander III
Events
1889 Russian flu pandemic Angleterre Hotel Kansallis-Osake-Pankki The Land Captain Statute
Births
2 February – Vasily Struve, historian, a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family (died 1965) 4 February – Pitirim Sorokin, sociologist, member of the Russian Constituent Assembly 24 February – Aleksei Dikiy, historian, actor and director (died 1955) 28 February – Pavel Dybenko, a Bolshevik revolutionary and a leading Soviet officer and military commander (died 1938) 19 March – Boris Gerasimovich, a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1937) 20 March – Alexander Vertinsky, historian, a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor (died 1957) 14 October – Natalia Martirosyan, engineer (died 1960) 25 November – Yan Berzin, politician and military intelligence officer (died 1938)
Deaths
22 April – Vasily Kokorev, one of the wealthiest men in Russia, entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector (born 1817) 7 May – Dmitry Tolstoy, a politician and a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia (born 1823) 10 May – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century (born 1826) 20 August – Andrey Krayevsky, publisher and journalist (born 1810) 29 October – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, a literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher (born 1828) 8 November – Nadezhda Sigida, a Russian revolutionary, heroine of the Kara katorga tragedy of 1889 (born 1862)
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