Events from the year 1848 in Russia

• Monarch – Nicholas I

• Nicholas I invades the Danubian principalities.^[1]
• Nicholas I sets up a secret committee to intensify censorship of the press.^[2]
• Russia, despite being largely unaffected by the revolutions of 1848, sends armies to aid the Habsburgs in the Hungarian revolution of 1848.^[3][4]
• Russia suffers major disasters such as a major cholera epidemic, a bad harvest, and an increase in fires due to weather.

• January 25 — Ekaterina Vazem, Russian ballet dancer, teacher
• April 7 — Anna Brenko, Russian actress, director, playwright, theater worker

• 7 June – Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic (born 1811)

• Lincoln, W.B. "Russia and the European Revolutions of 1848" History Today (Jan 1973), Vol. 23 Issue 1, pp 53-59 online.

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