1799 in Russia

The following article lists events that happened during the year 1799 in Russia.

Incumbents

Monarch – Paul I{{cite web |title=Paul {{!}} emperor of Russia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-emperor-of-Russia |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 July 2018 |language=en}}

War of the Second Coalition - Featured Alexander Suvoruv's campaigns in Italy and Switzerland (see Campaigns of 1799 in the French Revolutionary Wars).
March 3 - Siege of Corfu (1798–1799) ends with Corfu's surrender.
Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799
April 27 - Battle of Cassano (1799)
May 12 - Battle of Bassignana (1799)
May 16 - First Battle of Marengo (1799)
June 17-19 - Battle of Trebbia (1799)
August 15 - Battle of Novi (1799)
September 24-26 - Battle of Gotthard Pass
September 25-26 - Second Battle of Zurich
August 27 - November 19 - Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland
September 19 - Battle of Bergen (1799)
October 2 - Battle of Alkmaar (1799)
October 6 - Battle of Castricum
October 18 - Convention of Alkmaar{{cite web |title=Landing of British troops on the Texel, Holland, 27 August 1799 {{!}} Online Collection {{!}} National Army Museum, London |url=https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1963-07-46-1 |website=collection.nam.ac.uk |access-date=22 July 2018 |language=en}}

July 8 - Ukase of 1799 founding Russian-American Company and deliniating Russian claims.

Dmitry Bagration-Imeretinsky - member of former Georgian royal family, general (d. 1845)
Avdotia Istomina - ballerina (d. 1848)
Pyotr Kakhovsky - army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1826)
January 9 - Arvid Adolf Etholén, navy officer, explorer, and official of the Russian-American Company (d. 1876)
January 17 - Adolph Theodor Kupffer, Baltic German chemist and physicist (d. 1865)
March 1 - Alexey Verstovsky, composer (d. 1862)
May 8 - Konstantin Igelström, army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1851)
May 26 – Alexander Pushkin - poet, playwright, and novelist (d. 1837){{cite book |last1=Kahn |first1=Andrew |title=The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139827416 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmwGgQTm6LsC&pg=PA12|language=en}}
June 8 - Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Russo-German aristocrat (d. 1866)
June 10 - Fyodor Bruni, artist (d. 1875)
August 1 - Countess of Ségur, Franco-Russian writer (d. 1874)
September 13 - Mikhail Lavrov, admiral and Arctic explorer (d. 1882)
December 12 - Karl Bryullov, painter (d. 1852)

Maria Zubova, poet, composer, and singer (b. 1749?)
January 6 - Alexander Ivanovich Shilov, one of the founders of the Skoptsy sect (b. unknown)
January 13 - Ivan Ivanovich Belsky, painter (b. 1719)
April 6 - Alexander Bezborodko, statesman (b. 1747)
May - Joasaph Bolotov, missionary and bishop of Kodiak (b. 1761)
May 19 - N. P. Osipov, writer, poet, and translator (b. 1751)
August 2 - Vasily Bazhenov, architect (b. 1737 or 1738)