1794 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Catherine II

Events

• Kościuszko Uprising
• * April 4 - Battle of Racławice
• * April 17–19 - Warsaw Uprising (1794)
• * April 22 - Vilnius Uprising (1794)
• * June 6 - Battle of Szczekociny
• * June 8 - Battle of Chełm
• * July 13 - September 6 - Siege of Warsaw (1794)
• * September 19 - Battle of Brest (1794)
• * October 10 - Battle of Maciejowice
• * November 4 - Battle of Praga
• Kharitonov Palace commissioned
• Korenovsk founded
• Kushchyovskaya founded
• Odessa founded
• Ust-Labinsk founded
• Vilna Governorate-General created

Births

• Abbasgulu Bakikhanov - Azerbaijani writer, historian, poet, and linguist; Russian military officer
• Pyotr Chaadayev - philosopher
• Nikolai Borisovich Galitzin - nobleman who commissioned three string quartets from Beethoven
• Gavriil Antonovich Katakazi - diplomat and government official
• Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky - general
• Ivan Kupreyanov - naval officer and head of the Russian-American Company 1835-1840
• Alexander Petrov - chess player and writer
• August Georg Wilhelm Pezold - Estonian painter and lithographer
• Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov - astronomer and geodesist
• Sergei Grigoryevich Stroganov - nobleman, statesman, art historian, archaeologist, philanthropist
• Nikolai Sukhozanet - general and statesman
• Artemy Tereshchenko - businessman
• Konstantin Thon - architect
• Alexander Ulybyshev - diplomat and musicologist, biographer of Mozart
• Ivan Vitali - sculptor
• Matvei Wielhorski - Polish-Russian cellist

Deaths

• Gregory Skovoroda - philosopher, poet, composer
• Ivan Yelagin - historian, freemason, secretary to Catherine the Great
• Vasily Zuyev - naturalist and traveler