1792 in Russia

Events from the year 1792 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Russo-Turkish War (1787–92)
 * 9 January - Treaty of Jassy ends war


 * Polish–Russian War of 1792
 * 26 May - Battle of Opsa
 * 11 June - Battle of Mir
 * 14 June - Battle of Boruszkowce
 * 18 June - Battle of Zieleńce
 * 18 July - Battle of Dubienka

Births

 * Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856) - mathematician
 * Mikhail Pavlov (1792-1840) - academic, textbook writer
 * Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (1792-1795) - daughter of Paul I of Russia
 * Lev Perovski (1792-1856) - nobleman, administrator, and mineralogist
 * Pyotr Pletnyov (1792-1866) - poet, literary critic, academic
 * Natasha Rostova (b. 1792) - character in War and Peace
 * Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792-1862) - writer, poet, composer, singer, salonist, and lady-in-waiting
 * Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792-1878) - poet
 * Alexander Ypsilantis (1792-1828) - Greek who rose to be a Russian major general

Deaths

 * George Browne (1698-1792) - Irishman who became a Russian general and governor of Livonia
 * Denis Fonvizin (1745-1792) - playwright of the Russian Enlightenment
 * Gavriil Skorodumov (1755-1792) - engraver
 * Mikhail Sushkov (1778-1792) - writer, suicide
 * Elizaveta Vorontsova (1739-1792) - mistress of Peter III of Russia