1863 in Russia

• Monarch – Alexander II

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• Apraksin Dvor
• Pavel Military School
• Vremya (magazine)
• Tolstoy took five years (1863–1869) to complete his epic.{{Cite news|url=https://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2015/11/11/war-and-peace-7-little-known-facts-about-rusias-greatest-epic_539471|title=War and Peace: 7 little-known facts about Russia’s greatest epic|last=Viesel|first=Mikhail|date=2015-11-11|access-date=2018-07-16|language=en-US}}

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• Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919)
• Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, heir presumptive to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Nestor Kotlyarevsky, author, literary critic
• Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy, religious philosopher
• Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin, zoologist
• Aleksandr Golovin (artist)
• Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner
• Basil Belavin was born in 1865.{{Cite news|url=http://www.sonomawest.com/sonoma_west_times_and_news/news/the-saints-of-fort-ross-a-russian-orthodox-reliquary/article_84072c84-7f14-11e8-97a1-bbcc567f0eb3.html|title=The Saints of Fort Ross: A Russian Orthodox Reliquary |author=Daniel J. Demers |date=2018-07-03 |work=Sonoma West |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710113948/http://www.sonomawest.com/sonoma_west_times_and_news/news/the-saints-of-fort-ross-a-russian-orthodox-reliquary/article_84072c84-7f14-11e8-97a1-bbcc567f0eb3.html |archive-date=2018-07-10}}

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• Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist
• Mikhail Shchepkin, actor
• Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov, Major-General
• Jekaterina Saltykov, courtier (born 1791)

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