1802 in Russia
Events from the year '''1802 in Russia'''
Incumbents
Establishments
- Manifesto on the Establishment of Ministries, which established:
- * Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire
- * Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire
- * Ministry of National Education (Russian Empire)
- * Ministry of War of the Russian Empire
- Tartu University Library
- Imperial Philanthropic Society
- Moscow School of the Order of St Catherine
- Caucasus Governorate
- Chernigov Governorate
- Kherson Governorate
- Poltava Governorate
- Taurida Governorate
- Vitebsk Governorate
- Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Births
- Aharon of Karlin (II), Hasidic rabbi
- Irakly Baratynsky, general and statesman
- Alexey Buturlin, soldier and statesman
- Grigory Chernetsov, painter
- Konstantin Chevkin, general, Minister of Transport 1855-1862
- Boris Chorikov, artist and illustrator
- Praskovya Alexandrovna Hendrikova, noblewoman and court figure
- Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist, and philologist
- Alexandra Kolosova, actor and writer
- Ivan Krasnov, general and writer
- Nikolai Kristofari, helped create Russian banking system
- Nikifor Krylov, painter
- Nikolai Lavrov, opera singer
- Alexey Tarasovich Markov, painter and academic
- Pavel Nakhimov, admiral and war hero
- Jacob Netsvetov, Orthodox missionary in Alaska
- Alexander Odoevsky, poet, playwright, Decembrist
- Alexander Orbeliani, Georgian poet and journalist
- Mikhail Tebenkov, vice admiral, hydrographer
- Yegor Tolstoy, general, governor, and senator
- Mikhail Yuzefovich, educator known for efforts to suppress Ukrainian
Deaths
- Franz Aepinus, German mathematician and scientist
- Ivan Argunov, painter
- Mikhail Kozlovsky, sculptor
- Ivan Lepyokhin, naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer
- Alexander Radishchev, writer and social critic
- Darya Petrovna Saltykova, noblewoman and court figure