Events from the year 1790 in Russia
Incumbents
Events
- Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
- May 17-18: Battle of Andros (1790)
- July 19: Battle of Kerch Strait (1790)
- September 8-9: Battle of Tendra
- December 22: Conclusion of Siege of Izmail
- Russo-Swedish War (1788–90)
- April 29: Battle of Valkeala
- April 30: Battle of Pardakoski–Kärnakoski
- May 13: Battle of Reval
- May 15: Battle of Fredrikshamn
- May 19-20: Battle of Keltis
- June 3: Battle of Savitaipal
- June 3-4: Battle of Kronstadt
- June 16: Battle of Uransari
- July 2-3: Battle of Björkösund
- July 4: Battle of Vyborg Bay (1790)
- July 9-10: Battle of Svensksund
- August 14: Treaty of Värälä
- Church of the Ascension (Chaltyr) founded
- Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra completed
- Kokushkin Bridge built
- Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Alexander Radishchev published
Births
- Sima Babovich, Hakham of the Crimean Karaites
- Dmitry Buturlin, general, historian, censor
- Pyotr Yegorovich Chistyakov, explorer, admiral, fifth governor of Russian America
- Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov, nobleman, writer, and general
- Pyotr Gorchakov, general
- Ivan Liprandi, spy, general, memoirist
- Anastasia Novitskaya, ballerina
- Fedor Panyutin, general
- Platon Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, education minister (1850-1853)
- Mirza Jafar Topchubashev, Russian orientalist and poet from Azerbaijan
- Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, military officer and Decembrist organizer
- Alexander von Lüders, general
- Kapiton Zelentsov, artist and illustrator
Deaths
- Ivan Ivanovich Möller-Sakomelsky, general
- Mikhail Ivanovich Popov, writer, poet, dramatist, librettist
- Mikhail Shcherbatov, historian, writer, philosopher, statesman
- Grigory Spiridov, admiral
References
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