Events from the year 1876 in Russia.
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander II
Events
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March makes its premiere in Moscow. Marche slave Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy Reichstadt Agreement Kazan demonstration The Khanate of Kokand was incorporated into the Russian Empire. April Uprising: Bulgarian nationalists attacked the Ottoman police headquarters in Oborishte. Tsar Alexander II signed the Ems Ukaz, banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print.
Births
Nikolay Dukhonin, White Army General, casualty of the Russian Civil War. Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter. Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler and strongman of the early 20th century, born in Väike-Maarja, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire. Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (Lenin: God of the Godless), born in Ludza, Russian Empire Maxim Litvinov [Meir Genoch Moiseyevich Wallach], Russian statesman, revolutionary and diplomat (People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.1930-39, Soviet Ambassador to the US 1940-43), born in Białystok, Russian Empire Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress (The Wolf Man, Waterloo Bridge), born in Tula, Russian Empire Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator, born in Seppälä, Russia
Deaths
Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary anarchist, Died in Bern, Switzerland Alexander ll, Emperor of Russia assassinated in 1881 Joseph V Stalin, Bolshevik party leader in 1953.
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