1861 in Russia

none 1861 Events from the year 1861 in Russia Incumbents Monarch – Alexander II thumb|upright=1.5|A 1907 painting by Boris Kustodiev depicting the muzhiks listening to the proclamation of the Emancipation Manifesto in 1861 Events 27 February – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule, killing 5 protesters. 3 March (February 19 O.S.) – Emancipation reform of 1861: Serfdom is abolished. 13 March – Tsushima incident: the Russian corvette Posadnik arrives at Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait, Japan, provoking a reaction from the Japan. 24 April (N.S.) – Bezdna in Russia is the scene of a peasant uprising; the military open fire and nearly 5000 are killed.http://education.cambridge.org/media/577146 "Imperial Russia, revolutions_and_the_emergence_of_the_Soviet_state" https://web.archive.org/web/20130923070643/http://education.cambridge.org/media/577146/history_for_the_ib_diploma__imperial_russia__revolutions_and_the_emergence_of_the_soviet_state_1853%E2%80%93_samples.pdf 2013-09-23 . Accessed 11 March 2013 21 May – Russian sailors clash with Japanese samurai and farmers at Tsushima island.Negotiating with Imperialism, Michael R. Auslin, p. 79 Births 6 February - Nikolay Zelinsky, chemist 12 July - Anton Arensky, composer of Romantic classical music 29 October - Andrei Ryabushkin, painter 16 November - Arvid Järnefelt, Finnish author (d. 1932) 5 December - Konstantin Korovin, impressionist painter Deaths 10 March - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and writer 29 November - Nikolay Dobrolyubov, philosopher and revolutionary References 1861 1861 Category:1861 in the Russian Empire Category:Years of the 19th century in the Russian Empire Category:1861 by country