1859 in Russia

Events from the year 1859 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Alexander II

Events

 * The Vodka protests of 1858–1859
 * Iskra (magazine)
 * Russian Musical Society
 * Vilnius–Kaunas Railway

Births

 * – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906 [O.S. 1905])
 * September 24 – Radko Dimitriev, Bulgarian and Russian general (d. 1918)