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Events from the year 1837 in Russia
The Winter Palace is destroyed by fire.
Incumbents
Monarch – Nicholas I
Events
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Tsar Nicholas I is the first reigning Russian monarch to tour the Caucuses region since Peter I, 115 years earlier.Khodarkovsky Michael Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus Cornell Press 2014 9780801449727 Ithica, New York, U.S.A. 120 English
Peter Chaadev publishes Apology of a Madman.Werth Paul W. 1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution 18 Feb 2021 Oxford University Press 9780198826354 UK 145–164, especially 145 en
Major reforms to the Russian imperial bureaucracy include provisions for the creation of newspapers in Russian's 42 European provinces.Werth Paul W. 1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution Oxford Publications 2021 9780198826354 Oxford, UK 18 Feb 2021 85–104, especially 87. EnglishПолное собрание законов Российской империи. 1837 Second Department of His Imperial Majesty's Own Office 1 ru Complete Collection of the Laws of the Russian Empire
The Ministry of State Properties, which controlled government lands including farms, is created in December, 1837.
A decree on New Year's day moved administrative control of the Russian Greek Catholic Church from Russia's interior ministry to the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church's chief procurator. This would set the stage for full union two years later
October 30, the first train service in Russia, the Tsarskoye Selo Railway, running from St. Petersburg to Pavlovsk, opened to the public.Haywood Richard Mowbray The beginnings of railway development in Russia in the reign of Nicholas I, 1835-1842 Duke University Press 1969 9780822300847 Durham, North Carolina, USA 1969 119 En
Fire destroys the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.Вече M. 00 великих катастроф 1999 5-7838-0454-1 261 Ru 100 Major Disasters
Births
2 January - Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, conductor, and composer, born in Nizhny NovgorodMay 2026
3 March - Aleksandr Korkin, Mathematician, born Zhidovinovo,
19 April - Nikolai Blagoveshchensky, Writer, ethnographer and journalist, born in Moscow
27 May - Ivan Kramskoi, realist painter and art critic, born in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh Governorate2013-09-09 Ivan Kramskoy: Life and Works Prof. Qualls' Course Blogs https://blogs.dickinson.edu/quallsk/2013/09/09/ivan-kramskoy-life-and-works/ 2026-05-19 en-US
31 May - Nikolai Uspensky, Writer, born in Stupino Tula Governorate
24 September - Alexander Imeretinsky, Russian general, born in Moscow
16 November - Franz Overbeck, Protestant Theologian, born in Saint Petersburg
Deaths
October 2015
10 February29 January O.S. - Alexander Pushkin, poet, dies in duel (born 1799)
References
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