1829 in Russia

Events from the year 1829 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch — Nicholas I
 * Metropolitan and Archbishop of Moscow — Philaret Drozdov

Events

 * Mizur (Мизур), a rural settlement, founded
 * February, Hans Karl Friedrich Anton Graf von Diebitsch und Narten (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ди́бич-Забалка́нский) replaces Russian commander-in-chief Prince Peter Wittgenstein in a Russo-Turkish War
 * 7 May, Diebitsch and 60,000 men cross the Danube to restart the siege of Silistra
 * 30 May, Battle of Kulevitcha between Russia and Ottoman Empire
 * Russian victory
 * 19 June, Silistra falls to Russians
 * 12 September, Greek War of Independence results in Greek victory, Russia having supported Greece throughout the nine years of conflict.
 * 14 September, Russo-Turkish War, sparked by the Greek War of Independence, ends in a Russian victory
 * Treaty of Adrianpole (also called Treaty of Edirne)
 * Occupation of Danubian Principalities

Art and Literature

 * Poltava ( Полтава) by Alexander Pushkin
 * Narrative poem on Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa's involvement in the Battle of Poltava between Sweden and Russia that took place in 1709

Births

 * 13 August [O.S. 1] — Ivan Sechenov, psychologist, physiologist, medical scientist (d.1905)
 * 28 November — Anton Rubinstein, pianist, composer (d.1894)

Deaths

 * Yekaterina von Engelhardt
 * Maria Sinyavskaya
 * Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, painter, academician of Russian Academy of Arts (b.1771)
 * 11 February — Alexander Griboyedov, playwright, diplomat (b.1795)
 * Killed by mob
 * 28 September [ O.S. 16] — Nikolay Raevsky, general and statesman (b.1771)