1890 in Russia

Events from the year 1890 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander III

Events

• Eastern journey of Nicholas II
• Gugunian Expedition
• Armenian Revolutionary Federation
• Haji Alakbar Mosque
• Rakvere Lihakombinaat
• Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society

Births

• January 20 - Boris Kozo-Polyansky, botanist and evolutionary biologist (d. 1957)
• February 10 – Boris Pasternak, writer (Doctor Zhivago), Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)
• March 9 (new style) - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
• April 18 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d.1958)
• August 3 – Konstantin Melnikov, avant-garde architect (d. 1974)
• August 13 – Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a pilot's licence (d. 1916)
• November 9 – Grigory Kulik, Soviet military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1950)
• November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)

Deaths

References

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