1799 in Russia
The following article lists events that happened during the year 1799 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
- War of the Second Coalition - Featured Alexander Suvoruv's campaigns in Italy and Switzerland.
- *March 3 - Siege of Corfu (1798–1799) ends with Corfu's surrender.
- *Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799
- **April 27 - Battle of Cassano (1799)
- **May 12 - Battle of Bassignana (1799)
- **May 16 - First Battle of Marengo (1799)
- **June 17–19 - Battle of Trebbia (1799)
- **August 15 - Battle of Novi (1799)
- **September 24–26 - Battle of Gotthard Pass
- **September 25–26 - Second Battle of Zurich
- *August 27 - November 19 - Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland
- **September 19 - Battle of Bergen (1799)
- **October 2 - Battle of Alkmaar (1799)
- **October 6 - Battle of Castricum
- **October 18 - Convention of Alkmaar
- July 8 - Ukase of 1799 founding Russian-American Company and delineating Russian claims.
Births
- Dmitry Bagration-Imeretinsky - member of former Georgian royal family, general
- Avdotia Istomina - ballerina
- Pyotr Kakhovsky - army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt
- January 9 - Arvid Adolf Etholén, navy officer, explorer, and official of the Russian-American Company
- January 17 - Adolph Theodor Kupffer, Baltic German chemist and physicist
- March 1 - Alexey Verstovsky, composer
- May 8 - Konstantin Igelström, army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt
- May 26 - Alexander Pushkin - poet, playwright, and novelist
- June 8 - Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Russo-German aristocrat
- June 10 - Fyodor Bruni, artist
- August 1 - Countess of Ségur, Franco-Russian writer
- September 13 - Mikhail Lavrov, admiral and Arctic explorer
- December 12 - Karl Bryullov, painter
Deaths
- Maria Zubova, poet, composer, and singer
- January 6 - Alexander Ivanovich Shilov, one of the founders of the Skoptsy sect
- January 13 - Ivan Ivanovich Belsky, painter
- April 6 - Alexander Bezborodko, statesman
- May - Joasaph Bolotov, missionary and bishop of Kodiak
- May 19 - N. P. Osipov, writer, poet, and translator
- August 2 - Vasily Bazhenov, architect