1793 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Catherine II

Events

• Minsk Governorate
• Orthodox Eparchy of Minsk and Slutsk
• Second Partition of Poland

Births

• Jafargulu Bakikhanov - Azerbaijani noble who became a Russian general
• Maria Danilova - ballet dancer
• Apollon Galafeyev - general
• Nikolay Kobozev - merchant, first mayor of Berdiansk
• Karl Eduard von Napiersky - Latvian historian
• Pavel Pestel - revolutionary, Decembrist
• Feodor Pryanishnikov - post office administrator and reformer
• Elena Yezhova - opera singer and actress

Deaths

• Karl Blank - architect
• Mikhail Krechetnikov - general