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1796 in Russia
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1796
Events from the year 1796 in Russia.
Incumbents
Monarch – Catherine II (until November 17), Paul I (after November 17)
Events
thumb|Facade of the Alexander Palace, 2013
Persian Expedition of 1796
Storming of Derbent - May 10
Alexander Palace completed
Gomel Palace completed
New Russia trading post established in what is modernly Yakutat, Alaska
Ulyanovsk (then "Simbirsk") granted city status
Vsevolod, a 74-gun ship of the line, launched
Births
Nicholas I of Russia, monarch (d. 1855)
Pavel Petrovich Anosov, mining engineer, governor, and general (d. 1851)
Alexander Bagration-Imeretinsky, Georgian prince, Russian general
Nikolai Brashman, mathematician (d. 1866)
Nikolai Lukash, general and civil servant (d. 1868)
Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Decembrist (d. 1826)
Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, civil servant and statesman (d. 1866)
Nikita Muravyov, Decembrist (d. 1843)
Yevgeny Obolensky, Decembrist (d. 1865)
Nikolai Polevoy, editor, writer, historian (d. 1846)
Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist (d. 1863)
Deaths
Catherine II, monarch (born 1729)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great Catherine the Great Encyclopædia Britannica 1 August 2026
Nikolay Arsenyev, general (b. circa 1739)
Juvenaly of Alaska, Russian Orthodox martyr (b. 1761)
Ermil Kostrov, poet and translator (b. 1755)
Andrei Miloradovich, general and governor (b. 1727)
Pavel Potemkin, soldier, statesman, writer (b. 1743)
Gavriil Pribylov, navigator
Pyotr Rumyantsev, general, (born 1725)
References
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