1829 in Russia

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Events from the year 1829 in Russia

The Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829 resulted from the Greek War of Independence of 1821–1829; war broke out after the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II closed the Dardanelles to Russian ships and in November 1827 revoked the 1826 Akkerman Convention in retaliation for the participation of the Imperial Russian Navy in the Battle of Navarino of October 1827.

Incumbents

Mizur (Мизур), a rural settlement, founded
February, Hans Karl Friedrich Anton Graf von Diebitsch und Narten (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ди́бич-Забалка́нский) replaces Russian commander-in-chief Prince Peter Wittgenstein in a Russo-Turkish War
7 May, Diebitsch and 60,000 men cross the Danube to restart the siege of Silistra
30 May, Battle of Kulevitcha between Russia and Ottoman Empire
Russian victory
19 June, Silistra falls to Russians
12 September, Greek War of Independence results in Greek victory, Russia having supported Greece throughout the nine years of conflict.
14 September, Russo-Turkish War, sparked by the Greek War of Independence, ends in a Russian victory
Treaty of Adrianpole (also called Treaty of Edirne)
Occupation of Danubian Principalities

Poltava ( Полтава) by Alexander Pushkin
Narrative poem on Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa's involvement in the Battle of Poltava between Sweden and Russia that took place in 1709

13 August [O.S. 1] — Ivan Sechenov, psychologist, physiologist, medical scientist (d.1905)
28 November — Anton Rubinstein, pianist, composer (d.1894)

Yekaterina von Engelhardt
Maria Sinyavskaya
Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, painter, academician of Russian Academy of Arts (b.1771)
11 February — Alexander Griboyedov, playwright, diplomat (b.1795)
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28 September [O.S. 16] — Nikolay Raevsky, general and statesman (b.1771)