1846 in Russia
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Here are the events from the year 1846 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
- A wealthy landowner, Nikolai Bakhmetev, constructs a stone church, which would eventually be built into the Annunciation Monastery (Tolyatti) in Samara Oblast[1]
- On January 15, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel "Poor Folk" was published in the St. Petersburg Collection almanac, which was a significant moment in Russian literature that foreshadowed deeper social critiques.[2]
- The Double was first published in the Otechestvennye zapiski on 30 January, which was Fyodor Dostoevsky's second novel.
- The Petrashevsky Circle, organized by Mikhail Petrashevsky, was active in the 1840s (founded in 1845) and by 1846 it existed as a gathering of intellectuals.
- A devastating potato disease hit the Russian Empire. However, it was supposed to shield the peasants against famine.[3]
Births
January–June
- 23 January – Nikolay Umov, Physicist and mathematician (d. 15 January 1915)
- 9 May – Nicolai Soloviev, composer (d. 27 December 1916)
- 30 May – Peter Carl Farbergé, Jeweler (d. 24 September 1920)
July–December
- 3 July – Achilles Alferaki, composer (d. 27 December 1919)
- August 16 – Oskar Victorovich Stark, Russian admiral and explorer (d. 1928)
- September 25 – Wladimir Köppen, Russian-German geographer, climatologist (d. 1940)
- 23 October – Alexander Arkhangelsky, composer (d. 16 November 1924)
- December 21 – Julia Lermontova, Russian chemist (d. 1919)
Deaths
References
- ↑ Лобанова Н. Г. (2007). "А счастье было так возможно" [Happiness was so possible]. Деловая дама Тольятти (in Russian). No. 3. Тольятти. pp. 34–35.
- ↑ "Historical Events in 1846". On This Day. 1846. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
- ↑ "The spread of the potato blight in the Russian Empire, 1846 to 1852" (PDF).
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