1797 in Russia

Events from the year 1797 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Paul I

Events

 * Third Partition of Poland
 * Pauline Laws - house laws of the House of Romanov established
 * April 5 – Manifesto of three-day corvee
 * Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria
 * Herzen University founded
 * Saint Petersburg Theological Academy founded

Births

 * Alexander Bestuzhev, Decembrist, writer (d. 1837)
 * Dimitri Ivanovich Dolgorukov, diplomat and travelling companion of Washington Irving (d. 1867)
 * Yelizaveta Golitsyna, noblewoman, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1844)
 * Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. (d. 1879)
 * Alexander Kazarsky, naval officer, war hero (d. 1833)
 * Nikolay Dmitrievich Mylnikov, portrait painter (d. 1842)
 * Arsena Odzelashvili, Georgian outlaw, (d. 1842)
 * Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. (d. 1882)

Deaths

 * Ivan Chernyshyov, diplomat and admiralty official (b. 1726)
 * Ekaterina Kniazhnina, poet (b. 1746)
 * Pyotr Melissino, General of the Artillery (b. 1726)
 * Vasily Pashkevich, composer, singer, violinist, teacher (b. circa 1742)
 * Alexei Senyavin, admiral (b. 1716)
 * Ivan Shuvalov, first Russian Minister of Education (b. 1727)