1802 in Russia

Events from the year 1802 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Alexander I

Establishments

 * Manifesto on the Establishment of Ministries, which established:
 * Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire
 * Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire
 * Ministry of National Education (Russian Empire)
 * Ministry of War of the Russian Empire
 * Tartu University Library
 * Imperial Philanthropic Society
 * Moscow School of the Order of St Catherine
 * Caucasus Governorate
 * Chernigov Governorate
 * Kherson Governorate
 * Poltava Governorate
 * Taurida Governorate
 * Vitebsk Governorate
 * Yekaterinoslav Governorate

Births

 * Aharon of Karlin (II), Hasidic rabbi (d. 1872)
 * Irakly Baratynsky, general and statesman (d. 1859)
 * Alexey Buturlin, soldier and statesman (d. 1863)
 * Grigory Chernetsov, painter (d. 1865)
 * Konstantin Chevkin, general, Minister of Transport 1855-1862 (d. 1875)
 * Boris Chorikov, artist and illustrator (d. 1866)
 * Praskovya Alexandrovna Hendrikova, noblewoman and court figure (d. 1843)
 * Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist, and philologist (d. 1870)
 * Alexandra Kolosova, actor and writer (d. 1880)
 * Ivan Krasnov, general and writer (d. 1871)
 * Nikolai Kristofari, helped create Russian banking system (d. 1881)
 * Nikifor Krylov, painter (d. 1831)
 * Nikolai Lavrov, opera singer (d. 1840)
 * Alexey Tarasovich Markov, painter and academic (d. 1878)
 * Pavel Nakhimov, admiral and war hero (d. 1855)
 * Jacob Netsvetov, Orthodox missionary in Alaska (d. 1864)
 * Alexander Odoevsky, poet, playwright, Decembrist (d. 1839)
 * Alexander Orbeliani, Georgian poet and journalist (d. 1869)
 * Mikhail Tebenkov, vice admiral, hydrographer (d. 1872)
 * Yegor Tolstoy, general, governor, and senator (d. 1874)
 * Mikhail Yuzefovich, educator known for efforts to suppress Ukrainian (d. 1889)

Deaths

 * Franz Aepinus, German mathematician and scientist (b. 1724)
 * Ivan Argunov, painter (b. 1729)
 * Mikhail Kozlovsky, sculptor (b. 1753)
 * Ivan Lepyokhin, naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer (b. 1740)
 * Alexander Radishchev, writer and social critic (b. 1749)
 * Darya Petrovna Saltykova, noblewoman and court figure (b. 1739)