1799 in Russia

The following article lists events that happened during the year 1799 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Paul I

Events

 * War of the Second Coalition
 * March 3 - Siege of Corfu (1798–1799) ends with Corfu's surrender
 * Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799
 * April 27 - Battle of Cassano (1799)
 * May 12 - Battle of Bassignana (1799)
 * May 16 - First Battle of Marengo (1799)
 * June 17-19 - Battle of Trebbia (1799)
 * August 15 - Battle of Novi (1799)
 * September 24-26 - Battle of Gotthard Pass
 * September 25-26 - Second Battle of Zurich
 * August 27 - November 19 - Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland
 * September 19 - Battle of Bergen (1799)
 * October 2 - Battle of Alkmaar (1799)
 * October 6 - Battle of Castricum
 * October 18 - Convention of Alkmaar


 * July 8 - Ukase of 1799 founding Russian-American Company and deliniating Russian claims

Births

 * Dmitry Bagration-Imeretinsky - member of former Georgian royal family, general (d. 1845)
 * Avdotia Istomina - ballerina (d. 1848)
 * Pyotr Kakhovsky - army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1826)
 * January 9 - Arvid Adolf Etholén, navy officer, explorer, and official of the Russian-American Company (d. 1876)
 * January 17 - Adolph Theodor Kupffer, Baltic German chemist and physicist (d. 1865)
 * March 1 - Alexey Verstovsky, composer (d. 1862)
 * May 8 - Konstantin Igelström, army officer, participant in Decembrist revolt (d. 1851)
 * May 26 – Alexander Pushkin - poet, playwright, and novelist (d. 1837)
 * June 8 - Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Russo-German aristocrat (d. 1866)
 * June 10 - Fyodor Bruni, artist (d. 1875)
 * August 1 - Countess of Ségur, Franco-Russian writer (d. 1874)
 * September 13 - Mikhail Lavrov, admiral and Arctic explorer (d. 1882)
 * December 12 - Karl Bryullov, painter (d. 1852)

Deaths

 * Maria Zubova, poet, composer, and singer (b. 1749?)
 * January 6 - Alexander Ivanovich Shilov, one of the founders of the Skoptsy sect (b. unknown)
 * January 13 - Ivan Ivanovich Belsky, painter (b. 1719)
 * April 6 - Alexander Bezborodko, statesman (b. 1747)
 * May - Joasaph Bolotov, missionary and bishop of Kodiak (b. 1761)
 * May 19 - N. P. Osipov, writer, poet, and translator (b. 1751)
 * August 2 - Vasily Bazhenov, architect (b. 1737 or 1738)