Events from the year 1866 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
- Daugavpils–Indra Railway
- Delo (magazine)
- Ekostrovskaya Volost
- Kalinin Machine-Building Plant
- Moscow Criminal Investigations Department
- South Eastern Railway (Russia)
- Swedish Theatre
- Alexander III marries Maria Sophie Feodorovna of Denmark
Births
- 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1866 - Dmitri Parsky, general (d. 1921)
- 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - Wassily Kandinsky, artist. (d. 1944)
Deaths
- 19 December [O.S. 7 December] 1866 - Mikhail Petrashevsky, Russian revolutionary and Utopian theorist. (b. 1821)[1]
- Maria Ikonina, ballerina. (b. 1788)
References
- ^ "Mikhail Vasilievich Petrashevsky". XPOHOC. Archived from the original on 30 December 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
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