1801 in Russia
Events from the year '''1801 in Russia'''
Incumbents
Events
- September 8 - Solar eclipse of September 8, 1801
- September 12 - Annexation of Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti confirmed
- October 8 - Treaty of Paris ends Russian participation in the War of the Second Coalition
- Indian March of Paul - attempted Russian attack on British India
- Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts founded
- Olonets Governorate
- Penza Governorate
- Caucasus Viceroyalty
Births
- Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Decembrist
- Vladimir Dal, doctor, official, lexicographer and folklorist
- Alexander Gagarin, general and nobleman
- Alexander von Güldenstubbe, Baltic German general
- Grigory Karelin, explorer, naturalist
- Nikolay Mozgalevsky, Decembrist
- Mikhail Ostrogradsky, mathematician and physicist
- Viktor Nikitich Panin, Minister of Justice 1841-1862
- Ksenofont Polevoy, writer, critic, translator
- Alexander Polyakov, artist
- Alexander Postels, naturalist, mineralogist
- Fedor Solntsev, painter and art historian
- Adam Rzewuski, Polish-Russian general
- Pavel Solomirsky, businessman
- Aleksandr Varlamov, composer of art songs
- Moritz von Jacobi, German Jewish physicist and inventor
Deaths
- Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, daughter of Paul I of Russia
- Ivan Gannibal, general
- Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev, Russo-Armenian banker
- Vasily Petrovich Orlov, cavalry general,
- Paul I of Russia, emperor
- Nicholas Vasilyevich Repnin, statesman and general
- Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, sadist and murderer
- Johann Hermann von Fersen, Saxon-born general