1796 in Russia

Events from the year 1796 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II (until November 17), Paul I (after November 17)

Events

 * Persian Expedition of 1796
 * Storming of Derbent - May 10


 * Alexander Palace completed
 * Gomel Palace completed
 * New Russia trading post established in what is modernly Yakutat, Alaska
 * Ulyanovsk (then "Simbirsk") granted city status
 * Vsevolod, a 74-gun ship of the line, launched

Births

 * Nicholas I of Russia, monarch (d. 1855)
 * Pavel Petrovich Anosov, mining engineer, governor, and general (d. 1851)
 * Alexander Bagration-Imeretinsky, Georgian prince, Russian general
 * Nikolai Brashman, mathematician (d. 1866)
 * Nikolai Lukash, general and civil servant (d. 1868)
 * Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Decembrist (d. 1826)
 * Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, civil servant and statesman (d. 1866)
 * Nikita Muravyov, Decembrist (d. 1843)
 * Yevgeny Obolensky, Decembrist (d. 1865)
 * Nikolai Polevoy, editor, writer, historian (d. 1846)
 * Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist (d. 1863)

Deaths

 * Catherine II, monarch (born 1729)
 * Nikolay Arsenyev, general (b. circa 1739)
 * Juvenaly of Alaska, Russian Orthodox martyr (b. 1761)
 * Ermil Kostrov, poet and translator (b. 1755)
 * Andrei Miloradovich, general and governor (b. 1727)
 * Pavel Potemkin, soldier, statesman, writer (b. 1743)
 * Gavriil Pribylov, navigator
 * Pyotr Rumyantsev, general, (born 1725)