1794 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Kościuszko Uprising
 * April 4 - Battle of Racławice
 * April 17-19 - Warsaw Uprising (1794)
 * April 22 - Vilnius Uprising (1794)
 * June 6 - Battle of Szczekociny
 * June 8 - Battle of Chełm
 * July 13 - September 6 - Siege of Warsaw (1794)
 * September 19 - Battle of Brest (1794)
 * October 10 - Battle of Maciejowice
 * November 4 - Battle of Praga


 * Kharitonov Palace commissioned
 * Korenovsk founded
 * Kushchyovskaya founded
 * Odessa founded
 * Ust-Labinsk founded
 * Vilna Governorate-General created

Births

 * Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794-1847) - Azerbaijani writer, historian, poet, and linguist; Russian military officer
 * Pyotr Chaadayev (1794-1856) - philosopher
 * Nikolai Borisovich Galitzin (1794-1866) - nobleman who commissioned three string quartets from Beethoven
 * Gavriil Antonovich Katakazi (1794-1867) - diplomat and government official
 * Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky (1794-1866) - general
 * Ivan Kupreyanov (1794-1857) - naval officer and head of the Russian-American Company 1835-1840
 * Alexander Petrov (1794-1867) - chess player and writer
 * August Georg Wilhelm Pezold (1794-1859) - Estonian painter and lithographer
 * Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov (1794-1855) - astronomer and geodesist
 * Sergei Grigoryevich Stroganov (1794-1882) - nobleman, statesman, art historian, archaeologist, philanthropist
 * Nikolai Sukhozanet (1794-1871) - general and statesman
 * Artemy Tereshchenko (1794-1873) - businessman
 * Konstantin Thon (1794-1881) - architect
 * Alexander Ulybyshev (1794-1858) - diplomat and musicologist, biographer of Mozart
 * Ivan Vitali (1794-1855) - sculptor
 * Matvei Wielhorski (1794-1866) - Polish-Russian cellist

Deaths

 * Gregory Skovoroda (1722-1794) - philosopher, poet, composer
 * Ivan Yelagin (1725-1794) - historian, freemason, secretary to Catherine the Great
 * Vasily Zuyev (1754-1794) - naturalist and traveler