1900 in Russia

Events from the year 1900 in Russia.

Incumbents

Monarch – Nicholas II

Events

Pyramid of Capitalist System
Russian polar expedition of 1900–02
Trans-Siberian Railway Panorama
Russian Empire at the 1900 Summer Olympics
The premiere of the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in Moscow
Amur anti-Chinese pogroms
The launching of the cruiser Aurora
The release of the first issue of the RSDLP newspaper Iskra
The opening of the Moscow Paveletsky railway station
Fire in the General Staff Building

Births

17 January – Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia, a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (died 1974)
19 January – Mikhail Vasilyevich Isakovsky, poet, lyricist, and translator (died 1973)
24 January – Johannes Reesen, politician (died 1937)
28 February – Vsevolod Vitalyevich Vishnevsky, writer, screenwriter, playwright, and journalist (died 1951)
12 March – Sergey Vladimirovich Nabokov, poet and translator, Vladimir Nabokov's brother (died 1945)
22 March – Suleyman Huseyn oglu Rahimov, writer, novelist, prosaist, and politician, a chairman of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers (died 1983)
30 March – Nikolai Demyanovich Psurtsev, Colonel General of the Communication Troops, Minister of Communications of the Soviet Union, Knight–Commander of the Order of the British Empire (died 1980)
6 April – Konstantin Aleksandrovich Vialov, poster artist, graphic artist, illustrator, set designer (died 1976)
14 April – Nikolay Andreyevich Prishchepa, Red Army major general killed in World War II (died 1941)
15 April – Alexander Fyodorovich Kazankin, a Red Army Lieutenant general who commanded the Soviet airborne (died 1955)
17 April – Elisabeth Pinajeff, actress (died 1995)
18 April – Nikolai Nikolaevich Vashugin, general and a political officer (died 1941)
19 April – Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko, animation and fantasy film director (died 1973)
24 April – Vasily Filippovich Gerasimenko, the lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II (died 1953)
28 May – Dmitry Ivanovich Ivanyuk, a Red Army colonel killed in World War II (died 1941)
30 June – Pyotr Mikhaylovich Gavrilov, an officer known as the hero of the Defense of Brest Fortress (died 1979)
3 July – Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino, librarian, founder of the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature (died 1990)
6 August – Grigori Shtern, Red Army general (b. 1900)
11 September
Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin, aerospace engineer, and aircraft designer who founded the Lavochkin aircraft design bureau (died 1960)
Ivan Nikitich Russiyanov, lieutenant general and Hero of the Soviet Union (died 1984)
22 September – Sergey Ozhegov, linguist and lexicographer, author of the Dictionary of the Russian Language (died 1964)
2 October – Nicolai Poliakoff OBE, the creator of Coco the Clown (died 1974)
5 October – Varvara Sergeyevna Myasnikova, actress (died 1978)
21 October – Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev, film director (died 1984)
26 October – Zvi Preigerzon, an author who specialized in historical prose of a historically fictional nature (died 1969)
27 October – Lidia Andreevna Ruslanova, folk singer (died 1973)
4 November – Sergei Dmitrievich Vasilyev, film director, screenwriter, and actor (died 1959)
6 November – Iosif Leonidovich Prut, a playwright, and the first Soviet screenwriter (died 1996)
11 November – Maria Babanova, actress (died 1983)
16 November – Nikolai Fyodorovich Pogodin, playwright (died 1962)
2 December
Nina Ivanovna Gagen-Torn, poet, writer, historian, and ethnographer (died 1986)
Aleksandr Andreyevich Prokofiev, poet, journalist, war correspondent, and public figure (died 1971)
18 December – Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov, Esperanto writer, translator, and critic (died 1938)

Deaths

3 January – Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich, writer (born 1822)
11 January – Aleksey Tillo, geographer, cartographer, land surveyor, lieutenant general of the Imperial Russian Army (born 1839)
12 January – Giorgi Davidovich Tsereteli, a Georgian writer, and the father of Irakli Tsereteli – a leading figure in the Georgian Mensheviks (born 1842)
18 January – Count Fyodor Logginovich Heiden, military commander of German-Dutch ancestry who served in the Imperial Russian Army (born 1821)
21 January – Solomon Zalkind Minor, rabbi and writer (born 1827)
23 March – Constantin Aleksandrovich Shapiro, a Hebrew lyric poet, and photographer (born 1839)
28 March – Apolinary Horawski, painter (born 1833)
20 April – Leonid Nikolaevich Maikov, a prominent researcher in the history of Russian literature, a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, president of the Russian Bibliological Society, Privy Councillor, the son of the painter Nikolay Maykov (born 1839)
25 April – Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia, great-granddaughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia, the wife of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1838)
1 May – Sergei Sergeyevich Korsakov, neuropsychiatrist (born 1854)
2 May – Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, painter (born 1817)
10 May – Mikhail Pavlovich Sabinin, a Russo-Georgian monk, historian of the Georgian Orthodox Church, and icon painter (born 1845)
21 June – Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov, Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1845)
30 June – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, a clergyman and mathematician (born 1827)
30 June – Alexey Dmitriyevich Startsev, a merchant and industrialist (born 1838)
16 July – Prince Alexander Ivanovich Urusov, lawyer, literary critic, translator, and philanthropist (born 1843)
19 July – Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy, a Privy Counsellor and Chamberlain of the Russian Imperial Court (born 1828)
30 July – Grigory Avetovich Dzhanshiyev, lawyer, publicist, and historian of Armenian descent (born 1851)
4 August – Isaac Ilyich Levitan, painter (born 1860)
12 August – Pavel Vasilyevich Shejn, a major Russian and Belarusian ethnographer and folklorist of Jewish origin (born 1826)
15 September – Nikolay Ivanovich Krasnov, a writer and lieutenant general of the Imperial Russian Army (born 1833)
11 October – Nikolai Mikhailovich Tikhomirov, engineer, public figure, one of the founders of Novosibirsk (born 1857)
17 November – Alexander Konstantinovich Bagration-Imeretinsky, a Georgian royal prince, a General of the Imperial Russian Army, and a hero of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) (born 1837)
4 December – Alexander Konstantinovch Sheller, writer (born 1838)

References

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