1798 in Russia
Events from the year '''1798 in Russia'''
Incumbents
Events
- War of the Second Coalition
- * Siege of Corfu (1798–1799)
- S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy founded
- Ostankino Palace completed
Births
- Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian prince, Russian general
- Łukasz Baraniecki, Archbishop of Lviv
- Alexander Brullov, painter
- Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Empress of Russia, wife of Emperor Nicholas I
- Anton Delvig, poet and journalist
- Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov, nobleman, philanthropist and industrialist
- Alexander Gorchakov, diplomat and statesman
- Anton Legashov, painter
- Iulian Liublinskii, nobleman and Decembrist
- Alexei Lvov, composer
- Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, archduke, military commander
- Elisei Morozov, businessman of the Morozovs dynasty
- Nikolay Protasov, general, attorney-general of the Most Holy Synod
- Ivan Pushchin, Decembrist and friend of Alexander Pushkin
- Valerian Safonovich, governor of Oryol 1854-1861
- Joseph Semashko, archbishop
- Sofya Shcherbatova, philanthropist
- Ivan Sherwood Verny, army officer who helped reveal the Decembrists
- Menucha Rochel Slonim, Rebbetzin, matriarch of the Chabad dynasty, emigrant to Hebron
- Ana Gruzinskaya Tolstaya, noblewoman
Deaths
- Peter Bielański, bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv
- Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn, nobleman and soldier
- Gabriel Lenkiewicz, priest, Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus 1785-1798