1801 in Russia

Events from the year 1801 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Paul I (until 23 March), Alexander I (from 23 March)

Events

 * September 8 - Solar eclipse of September 8, 1801
 * September 12 - Annexation of Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti confirmed
 * October 8 - Treaty of Paris ends Russian participation in the War of the Second Coalition
 * Indian March of Paul - attempted Russian attack on British India
 * Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts founded
 * Olonets Governorate
 * Penza Governorate
 * Caucasus Viceroyalty

Births

 * Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Decembrist (d. 1826)
 * Vladimir Dal, doctor, official, lexicographer and folklorist (d. 1872)
 * Alexander Gagarin, general and nobleman (d. 1857)
 * Alexander von Güldenstubbe, Baltic German general (d. 1884)
 * Grigory Karelin, explorer, naturalist (d. 1872)
 * Nikolay Mozgalevsky, Decembrist (d. 1844)
 * Mikhail Ostrogradsky, mathematician and physicist (d. 1862)
 * Viktor Nikitich Panin, Minister of Justice 1841-1862 (d. 1862)
 * Ksenofont Polevoy, writer, critic, translator (d. 1867)
 * Alexander Polyakov, artist (d. 1835)
 * Alexander Postels, naturalist, mineralogist (d. 1871)
 * Fedor Solntsev, painter and art historian (d. 1892)
 * Adam Rzewuski, Polish-Russian general (d. 1888)
 * Pavel Solomirsky, businessman (d. 1861)
 * Aleksandr Varlamov, composer of art songs (d. 1848)
 * Moritz von Jacobi, German Jewish physicist and inventor (d. 1872)

Deaths

 * Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, daughter of Paul I of Russia (b. 1783)
 * Ivan Gannibal, general (b. 1735)
 * Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev, Russo-Armenian banker (b. 1735)
 * Vasily Petrovich Orlov, cavalry general, (b. 1745)
 * Paul I of Russia, emperor (b. 1754)
 * Nicholas Vasilyevich Repnin, statesman and general (b. 1734)
 * Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, sadist and murderer (b. 1730)
 * Johann Hermann von Fersen, Saxon-born general (b. circa 1740)