1803 in Russia
Events from the year '''1803 in Russia'''
Incumbents
Events
- Demidov Lyceum founded in Jaroslavl.
- Mingrelia becomes a Russian subject.
- August 7 - Expedition to accomplish first Russian circumnavigation of the earth begins.
- November 22 - Siege of Ganja begins
Births
- Benzion Judah Berkowitz, Hebrew scholar
- Miron Cherepanov, engineer and inventor
- Alexander Grigorievich Fischer von Waldheim, botanist
- Aleksander Gurilyov, pianist, violinist, and composer
- Gregor von Helmersen, Baltic German geologist
- Evgeniya Maykova, writer and poet
- Vladimir Odoyevsky, philosopher, writer, and music critic
- Nikolai Pavlov, writer, publisher, and editor
- Aleksander Pisarev, playwright and theatre critic
- Serge Poltoratzky, literary scholar and bibliophile
- Yevfimiy Putyatin, admiral
- Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets, mining engineer
- Yuliya Samoylova, countess
- Gregory Shchurovsky, geologist
- Dmitri Sheremetev, aristocrat
- Dmitry Sontsov, numismatist
- Fyodor Tyutchev, poet and diplomat
- Stepan Vasiliyevich Voyevodsky, admiral, governor of Russian America and Astrakhan
- Nikolay Yazykov, poet
Deaths
- Ippolit Bogdanovich, poet
- Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov, lover of Catherine II of Russia
- Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, daughter of Paul I of Russia
- Pavel Fonvizin, educator, scholar, and writer
- Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn, diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist, mineralogist
- Gavriil Kamenev, Romantic poet, writer, and translator
- Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova, opera singer and actress
- Nikolay Lvov, architect, ethnographer, polymath
- Maria Nesselrode, courtier
- Sophia Razumovskaya, courtier
- Kirill Razumovsky, statesman
- Vasily Rodchev, painter
- Xenia of Saint Petersburg,, Orthodox saint