1789 in Russia

Events from the year 1789 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)
 * June 13 - Battle of Porrassalmi
 * July 26 - Battle of Öland (1789)
 * August 24 - Battle of Svensksund (1789)
 * September 30 - Battle of Elgsö


 * Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
 * August 1 - Battle of Focșani
 * September 22 - Battle of Rymnik


 * Kirov Plant (factory) established
 * Mykolaiv (city) founded
 * Moscow Gostiny Dvor shopping mall rebuilt
 * St. Vladimir's Cathedral (St. Petersburg)
 * Tauride Palace built

Births

 * Thaddeus Bulgarin - writer and publisher
 * Prince Constantine of Imereti (1789–1844) - Georgian prince, general in Russian service
 * Johann Cornies - Prussian Mennonite settler and agricultural reformer
 * Pavel Gagarin - statesman
 * Fedor Mirkovich - general
 * Dmitri Osten-Sacken - Baltic German/Russian general
 * Maria Szymanowska - Polish composer and pianist who settled in St. Petersburg
 * Mikhail Tikhanov - artist
 * Nikolay Turgenev - economist and political theorist

Deaths

 * Nikita Akinfiyevich Demidov, industrialist, landowner, scientist
 * Semyon Desnitsky, legal scholar