1798 in Russia

Events from the year 1798 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Paul I

Events

 * War of the Second Coalition
 * Siege of Corfu (1798–1799)
 * S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy founded
 * Ostankino Palace completed

Births

 * Ivane Andronikashvili (died 1868), Georgian prince, Russian general
 * Łukasz Baraniecki (died 1858), Archbishop of Lviv
 * Alexander Brullov (died 1877), painter
 * Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) (died 1860), Empress of Russia, wife of Emperor Nicholas I
 * Anton Delvig (died 1831), poet and journalist
 * Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov (died 1840), nobleman, philanthropist and industrialist
 * Alexander Gorchakov (died 1883), diplomat and statesman
 * Anton Legashov (died 1865), painter
 * Iulian Liublinskii (died 1876), nobleman and Decembrist
 * Alexei Lvov (died 1870), composer
 * Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (died 1849), archduke, military commander
 * Elisei Morozov (died 1868), businessman of the Morozovs dynasty
 * Nikolay Protasov (died 1855), general, attorney-general of the Most Holy Synod
 * Ivan Pushchin (died 1859), Decembrist and friend of Alexander Pushkin
 * Valerian Safonovich (died 1867), governor of Oryol 1854-1861
 * Joseph Semashko (died 1868), archbishop
 * Sofya Shcherbatova (died 1885), philanthropist
 * Ivan Sherwood Verny (died 1867), army officer who helped reveal the Decembrists
 * Menucha Rochel Slonim (died 1888), Rebbetzin, matriarch of the Chabad dynasty, emigrant to Hebron
 * Ana Gruzinskaya Tolstaya (died 1889), noblewoman

Deaths

 * Peter Bielański (born 1736), bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv
 * Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn (born 1731), nobleman and soldier
 * Gabriel Lenkiewicz (born 1722), priest, Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus 1785-1798