1803 in Russia

Events from the year 1803 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Alexander I

Events

 * Demidov Lyceum founded in Jaroslavl.
 * Mingrelia becomes a Russian subject.


 * August 7 - Expedition to accomplish first Russian circumnavigation of the earth begins.
 * November 22 - Siege of Ganja begins

Births

 * Benzion Judah Berkowitz (d. 1879), Hebrew scholar
 * Miron Cherepanov (d. 1849), engineer and inventor
 * Alexander Grigorievich Fischer von Waldheim (d. 1884), botanist
 * Aleksander Gurilyov (d. 1858), pianist, violinist, and composer
 * Gregor von Helmersen (d. 1885), Baltic German geologist
 * Evgeniya Maykova (d. 1880), writer and poet
 * Vladimir Odoyevsky (d. 1869), philosopher, writer, and music critic
 * Nikolai Pavlov (d. 1864), writer, publisher, and editor
 * Aleksander Pisarev (d. 1828), playwright and theatre critic
 * Serge Poltoratzky (d. 1884), literary scholar and bibliophile
 * Yevfimiy Putyatin (d. 1883), admiral
 * Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets (d. 1870), mining engineer
 * Yuliya Samoylova (d. 1875), countess
 * Gregory Shchurovsky (d. 1884), geologist
 * Dmitri Sheremetev (d. 1871), aristocrat
 * Dmitry Sontsov (d. 1875), numismatist
 * Fyodor Tyutchev (d. 1873), poet and diplomat
 * Stepan Vasiliyevich Voyevodsky (d. 1884), admiral, governor of Russian America and Astrakhan
 * Nikolay Yazykov (d. 1846), poet

Deaths

 * Ippolit Bogdanovich (b. 1744), poet
 * Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov (b. 1758), lover of Catherine II of Russia
 * Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (b. 1784), daughter of Paul I of Russia
 * Pavel Fonvizin (b. 1746), educator, scholar, and writer
 * Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn (b. 1728), diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist, mineralogist
 * Gavriil Kamenev (b. 1772), Romantic poet, writer, and translator
 * Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova (b. 1768), opera singer and actress
 * Nikolay Lvov (b. 1753), architect, ethnographer, polymath
 * Maria Nesselrode (b. 1786), courtier
 * Sophia Razumovskaya (b. 1746), courtier
 * Kirill Razumovsky (b. 1728), stateman
 * Vasily Rodchev (b. 1768), painter
 * Xenia of Saint Petersburg, (born c. 1719-1730), Orthodox saint