1891 in Russia

Events from the year 1891 in Russia.

Incumbents

Monarch – Alexander III

Events

Births

January 1 - Boris Morros, an American Communist Party member, Soviet agent, and FBI double agent
January 3 - Osip Mandelstam, poet
January 8 - Bronislava Nijinska, ballet dancer
January 20 - Mischa Elman, violinist
January 21 - Nikolai Golovanov, conductor and composer
January 23 - Abram Besicovitch, mathematician
February 14 - Liubov Kemularia-Nathadze, botanist
February 18 - Artur Artuzov, security officer and spymaster of the Soviet Union
February 23 - Vladimir Karelin, revolutionary, one of the organizers of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party
March 9 - Arkadi Maslow, politician
March 17 - Matvey Manizer, a sculptor
March 24 - Sergey Vavilov, physicist, the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, brother of Nikolai Vavilov
April 4 - Lidija Liepiņa, a physical chemist, professor
April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, composer
May 19 - Hamo Beknazarian, film director, actor and screenwriter
May 26 - Vladimir Lebedev, a painter, a political cartoonist and a poster artist
May 27 - Jaan Kärner, a poet and writer
May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, writer, medical doctor, and playwright
May 15 - Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii, poet and writer, playwright
June 25 - Pavel Lazimir, a Russian revolutionary and Soviet military leader
July 1 - Aron Baron, anarchist revolutionary
July 16 - Boris Lavrenyov, a writer and playwright
July 29 - Mikhail Zavadovsky, biologist
August 2 - Viktor Zhirmunsky, literary historian and linguist
August 17 - Aleksandr Kasyanov, composer, conductor, pianist and professor
September 3 - Evgeny Messner, professional soldier and military theorist
September 11 - Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, artist, graphic designer and sculptor
September 30 - Mikhail Medvedev-Kudrin, a Russian revolutionary, Chekist, direct participant in the execution of the Romanov family
September 30 - Ivan Mezhlauk, politician and statesman
October 5 - Mykola Liubynsky, a politician and diplomat
October 19 - Asja Lācis, an actress and theatre director
October 22 - Hans Kruus, historian, academic and politician
October 26 - Alexander Beloborodov, Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, party figure and statesman
November 9 - Rodion Kuzmin, mathematician, known for his works in number theory and analysis
November 11 - Lilya Brik, author and socialite, the lover and muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky
November 12 - Władysław Bortnowski, historian and military commander
November 20 - Izrail Agol, geneticist and philosopher
November 29 - Ivan Mikhailov, politician, economist, and White émigré
December 9 - Maksim Bahdanovič, poet, journalist, translator, literary critic and historian of literature
December 14 - Nikolay Belov, crystallographer and geochemist
December 20 - Maria Skobtsova, a Russian noblewoman, poet, nun, and member of the French Resistance during World War II
December 25 - Leonid Kubbel, composer of chess endgame studies and problems
December 30 - Nina Koshetz, operatic lyric soprano, recital singer, and the niece of Alexander Koshetz
December 31 - Mikhail Alafuso, general

Deaths

January 11 - Samuel Joseph Fuenn, writer, scholar, printer, and editor
February 16 - Karl Maximovich, botanist
February 17 - Nikolay Kridener, infantry general
March 24 - Mikhail Mirkovich, regimental commander and ethnographer, the son of Fedor Mirkovich
April 9 - Antonina Bludova, philanthropist, salonist, memoirist and lady-in-waiting
April 10 - Pyotr Petrov, writer, arts historian and critic, genealogist and bibliographer
April 12 - Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna of Russia, the daughter of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden and Sophie Wilhelmine of Sweden
April 24 - Nikolai Shelgunov, a forestry professor, journalist, and literary critic
April 25 - Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna
May 8 - Alexander von Keyserling, Baltic German geologist and paleontologist from the Keyserlingk family of Baltic German nobility
May 20 - Olga Ulyanova, a Russian noblewoman, polyglot, and the sister of Vladimir Lenin
June 5 - David Chubinashvili, a Georgian lexicographer, linguist, and scholar of old Georgian literature
June 20 - Andreas Roller, landscape painter and theatrical set designer
July 12 - Serhiy Podolynsky, a Ukrainian socialist, physician, and an early pioneer of ecological economics
August 16 - Ivan Naumovich, a priest, member of parliament, writer, and a major figure in the Russophile movement in western Ukraine
September 4 - Mikhail Koyalovich, historian, political journalist and publisher
September 24 - Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, the wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
September 27 - Ivan Goncharov, novelist
September 27 - Vladimir Titov, writer, statesman, diplomat
October 26 - Liodor Palmin, poet, translator and journalist
November 17 - Eduard Brandt, anatomist and zoologist
November 18 - Dmitrii Zhuravskii, mechanical scientist and engineer
November 24 - Konstantin Leontiev, philosopher
November 26 - Faraj bey Aghayev, lieutenant general of The Imperial Russian Army
December 6 - Pyotr Smyslov, astronomer and geodesist
December 11 - Alexander Potebnja, linguist, philosopher and panslavist
December 21 - Leon Pinsker, a physician and Zionist activist