Events from the year 1865 in Russia.
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander II
Events The Saint Petersburg Zoological Garden (later Leningrad Zoo) is founded by Sofia and Julius Gerhardt in Alexander Park, Saint Petersburg.
Russian forces capture the Central Asian city of Tashkent, then part of the Khanate of Kokand. At the time, Tashkent had about 70,000 inhabitants and was a major centre of trade with Russia. Author Leo Tolstoy begins publishing his historical novel War and Peace in serial form in the periodical Russkiy Vestnik under the title 1805.
Births 19 January – Valentin Serov, painter (d. 1911).
10 August – Aleksandr Glazunov, composer (d. 1936).
14 August – Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, author (d. 1941). References
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