1790 in Russia

Events from the year 1790 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

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