1863 in Russia

Events from the year 1863 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Alexander II

Events

 * Apraksin Dvor
 * Pavel Military School
 * Vremya (magazine)
 * Tolstoy took five years (1863–1869) to complete his epic.

Births

 * Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919)
 * Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, heir presumptive to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 * Nestor Kotlyarevsky, author, literary critic
 * Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy, religious philosopher
 * Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin, zoologist
 * Aleksandr Golovin (artist)
 * Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner
 * Basil Belavin was born in 1865.

Deaths

 * Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist
 * Mikhail Shchepkin, actor
 * Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov, Major-General
 * Jekaterina Saltykov, courtier (born 1791)