1891 in Russia

Events from the year 1891 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Alexander III

Events

 * Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad Begins


 * Eastern journey of Nicholas II
 * Ōtsu incident
 * Russian famine of 1891–92

Births

 * January 3 – Osip Mandelstam, poet (d. 1938)
 * January 8 – Bronislava Nijinska, ballet dancer (d. 1972)
 * January 20 – Mischa Elman, violinist (d. 1967)
 * January 21 – Nikolai Golovanov, conductor and composer (d. 1953)
 * April 23 – Sergei Prokofiev, composer (d. 1953)
 * August 2 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, literary historian and linguist (d. 1971)