Events from the year 1861 in Russia
Incumbents
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.[1]
- 21 May – Russian sailors clash with Japanese samurai and farmers at Tsushima island.[2]
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
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