1882 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander III

Events

• Tcherny railway accident
• May Laws
• Pavlovka (meteorite)
• Peasants' Land Bank
• 1812 Overture

Births

• January 4 - Aristarkh Lentulov, painter and set designer
• June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, composer, pianist, and conductor
• June 22 - Nikolai Cholodny, microbiologist

Deaths

• - Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer.