en 1804 in Russia

Years in Russia:	1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
Years:	1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807

Events from the year 1804 in Russia

Incumbents

Monarch – Alexander I

Events

Battle of Sitka
Kingdom of Imereti becomes a Russian vassal
Imperial Kazan University established
Molotschna founded; largest Russian Mennonite colony
Moscow Armenian Cemetery founded
Mtiuleti rebellion
Tomsk Governorate established

Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
- January - Siege of Ganja (1804)
- June - Battle of Echmiadzin (1804)
- July - September - Siege of Erivan (1804)

Births

Alexander Bantyshev, tenor opera singer, composer (d. 1860)
Aleksander Chodźko, poet, Iranologist, and Slavist (d. 1891)
Dorothea de Ficquelmont, writer and salonist (d. 1863)
Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer and founder of the Russian nationalist school of classical music. (d. 1857)^[1]
Aleksey Khomyakov, theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist; co-founded the Slavophile movement. (d. 1860)^[2]
Mykhailo Maksymovych, botanist, historian, and writer (d. 1873)
Mykola Markevych, historian, ethnographer (d. 1860)
Nikolai Melgunov, writer, translator, and music critic (d. 1867)
Pavel Petrovich Melnikov - Transport Minister, important in early railroad construction (d. 1880)
Józef Mianowski - Polish doctor, medical researcher, academic administrator (d. 1879)
Lyubov Mlotkovskaya - actress (d. 1866)
Nikolai Nadezhdin - literary critic, ethnographer (d. 1856)
Carl Timoleon von Neff - Baltic German artist (d. 1877)
Aleksandr Nikitenko - Ukrainian literary historian, professor, imperial censor, and diarist (d. 1877)
Grigol Orbeliani - Georgian poet; imperial general and governor (d. 1883)
Alexander Polezhayev - poet (d. 1838)
Yakov Rostovtsev - general, helped draft regulations to emancipate the serfs (d. 1860)
Gordiy Sablukov - Islamist and translator (d. 1880)
Judah Idel Scherschewsky - Lithuanian Jewish Talmudist and Hebraist (d. 1866)
Gregory Shuvalov - aristocrat and officer; Catholic convert
Eduard de Stoeckl - diplomat (d. 1892)
Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov - general, diplomat, and administrator
Ekaterina Telesheva - ballerina (d. 1857)
Sofya Urusova - lady-in-waiting, favorite of Nicholas I (d. 1889)
Porphyrius Uspensky - theologian, orientalist, archaeologist (d. 1885)
Nikolay Yevdokimov - general; responsible for Circassian genocide

Deaths

Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1727)
Anna Matyushkina, courtier (b. 1722)
Valentin Musin-Pushkin, general and administrator (b. 1735)
Maxim Rehbinder, general (b. 1730)
Valerian Zubov, general (b. 1771)

References

^ "Mikhail Glinka RUSSIAN COMPOSER". ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. 2020-02-11. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
^ Zernov, Nicolas. "Aleksay Stepanovich Khomyakov RUSSIAN POET and THEOLOGIAN". ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. Archived from the original on 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2020-04-02.

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[1] "Mikhail Glinka RUSSIAN COMPOSER". ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. 2020-02-11. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2020-04-02.

[2] Zernov, Nicolas. "Aleksay Stepanovich Khomyakov RUSSIAN POET and THEOLOGIAN". ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. Archived from the original on 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2020-04-02.

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