1804 in Russia

Events from the year 1804 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Alexander I

Events

 * Battle of Sitka
 * Kingdom of Imereti becomes a Russian vassal
 * Imperial Kazan University established
 * Molotschna founded; largest Russian Mennonite colony
 * Moscow Armenian Cemetery founded
 * Mtiuleti rebellion
 * Tomsk Governorate established


 * Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
 * January - Siege of Ganja (1804)
 * June - Battle of Echmiadzin (1804)
 * July - September - Siege of Erivan (1804)

Births

 * Alexander Bantyshev, tenor opera singer, composer (d. 1860)
 * Aleksander Chodźko, poet, Iranologist, and Slavist (d. 1891)
 * Dorothea de Ficquelmont, writer and salonist (d. 1863)
 * Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer and founder of the Russian nationalist school of classical music. (d. 1857)
 * Aleksey Khomyakov, theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist; co-founded the Slavophile movement. (d. 1860)
 * Mykhailo Maksymovych, botanist, historian, and writer (d. 1873)
 * Mykola Markevych, historian, ethnographer (d. 1860)
 * Nikolai Melgunov, writer, translator, and music critic (d. 1867)
 * Pavel Petrovich Melnikov - Transport Minister, important in early railroad construction (d. 1880)
 * Józef Mianowski - Polish doctor, medical researcher, academic administrator (d. 1879)
 * Lyubov Mlotkovskaya - actress (d. 1866)
 * Nikolai Nadezhdin - literary critic, ethnographer (d. 1856)
 * Carl Timoleon von Neff - Baltic German artist (d. 1877)
 * Aleksandr Nikitenko - Ukrainian literary historian, professor, imperial censor, and diarist (d. 1877)
 * Grigol Orbeliani - Georgian poet; imperial general and governor (d. 1883)
 * Alexander Polezhayev - poet (d. 1838)
 * Yakov Rostovtsev - general, helped draft regulations to emancipate the serfs (d. 1860)
 * Gordiy Sablukov - Islamist and translator (d. 1880)
 * Judah Idel Scherschewsky - Lithuanian Jewish Talmudist and Hebraist (d. 1866)
 * Gregory Shuvalov - aristocrat and officer; Catholic convert
 * Eduard de Stoeckl - diplomat (d. 1892)
 * Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov - general, diplomat, and administrator
 * Ekaterina Telesheva - ballerina (d. 1857)
 * Sofya Urusova - lady-in-waiting, favorite of Nicholas I (d. 1889)
 * Porphyrius Uspensky - theologian, orientalist, archaeologist (d. 1885)
 * Nikolay Yevdokimov - general; responsible for Circassian genocide

Deaths

 * Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1727)
 * Anna Matyushkina, courtier (b. 1722)
 * Valentin Musin-Pushkin, general and administrator (b. 1735)
 * Maxim Rehbinder, general (b. 1730)
 * Valerian Zubov, general (b. 1771)