• Monarch – Catherine II

• Minsk Governorate
• Orthodox Eparchy of Minsk and Slutsk
• Second Partition of Poland

• Jafargulu Bakikhanov (1793-1867) - Azerbaijani noble who became a Russian general
• Maria Danilova (1793-1810) - ballet dancer
• Apollon Galafeyev (1793-1853) - general
• Nikolay Kobozev (1793-1866) - merchant, first mayor of Berdiansk
• Karl Eduard von Napiersky (1793-1864) - Latvian historian
• Pavel Pestel (1793-1826) - revolutionary, Decembrist
• Feodor Pryanishnikov (1793-1867) - post office administrator and reformer
• Elena Yezhova (1793-1853) - opera singer and actress

• Karl Blank (1728-1793) - architect
• Mikhail Krechetnikov (1729-1793) - general

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