1805 in Russia
Events from the year '''1805 in Russia'''
Incumbents
Events
- Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
- * May 14: Treaty of Kurakchay - Karabakh Khanate vassalized
- * May 21: Shaki Khanate vassalized
- * July 3–27: Karyagin's Raid
- * October 20: Shoragel sultanate surrenders
- * December 27: Shirvan Khanate submits
- War of the Third Coalition against France
- * April 11: Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1805), Russia joins the alliance
- * Hanover Expedition - alliance occupation of the Electorate of Hanover
- * October 30: Battle of Mehrnbach
- * October 31: Battle of Lambach
- * November 3: Treaty of Potsdam (1805), Prussia to join alliance if negotiations with France failed
- * November 5: Battle of Amstetten
- * November 11: Battle of Dürenstein
- * November 16: Battle of Schöngrabern
- * November 28: Battle of Wischau
- * December 2: Battle of Austerlitz
- Russo-Tlingit War
- * Tlingit destroy New Russia (trading post)
- Moscow Society of Naturalists founded
- Kharkov National Medical University founded
- Alexander Garden (Saint Petersburg) designed
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Mary built
- Second Saint Petersburg Gymnasium founded
- Yakutsk Oblast established
Births
- Modest Ivanovich Bogdanovich, general and military historian
- Nikanor Chernetsov, landscape painter
- Solomon Dodashvili, Georgian writer and educator
- Philaret Gumilevsky, Orthodox archbishop and church historian
- Aleksandra Ishimova, translator and children's author
- Pyotr Karatygin, actor, playwright, and writer
- Andreas Roller, German born painter and set designer
- Nikolay Ustryalov, historian
- Illarion Vasilchikov, general
- Dmitry Venevitinov, poet
- Mariya Volkonskaya, wife of Decembrist Prince Sergey Volkonsky
- Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, sculptor
- Vasily Zhivokini, comic actor
- Maria Zhukova, writer
Deaths
- Pyotr Drozhdin, painter
- Jacob Stepanovich Esipov, investor and businessman
- Anna Lopukhina, mistress of Paul I of Russia
- Apollo Mussin-Pushkin, chemist and plant collector
- Ivan Pnin, poet and political writer
- Ivan Saltykov, field marshal, governor-general of Moscow
- Fedot Shubin, sculptor
- Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen, noble, aide-de-camp to Alexander I
- Alexander Vorontsov, diplomat and Chancellor
- Nikolay Alexandrovich Zubov, soldier, courtier, regicide