1792 in Russia
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Events from the year 1792 in Russia
Incumbents
Events
- Russo-Turkish War (1787–92)[1]
- 9 January - Treaty of Jassy ends war
- Polish–Russian War of 1792
- 26 May - Battle of Opsa
- 11 June - Battle of Mir
- 14 June - Battle of Boruszkowce
- 18 June - Battle of Zieleńce
- 18 July - Battle of Dubienka
Births
- Archimandrite Photius (1792-1838) - religious leader[2]
- Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856) - mathematician
- Mikhail Pavlov (1792-1840) - academic, textbook writer
- Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (1792-1795) - daughter of Paul I of Russia
- Lev Perovski (1792-1856) - nobleman, administrator, and mineralogist
- Pyotr Pletnyov (1792-1866) - poet, literary critic, academic
- Natasha Rostova (b. 1792) - character in War and Peace
- Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792-1862) - writer, poet, composer, singer, salonist, and lady-in-waiting
- Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792-1878) - poet
- Alexander Ypsilantis (1792-1828) - Greek who rose to be a Russian major general
Deaths
- George Browne (1698-1792) - Irishman who became a Russian general and governor of Livonia
- Denis Fonvizin (1745-1792) - playwright of the Russian Enlightenment
- Gavriil Skorodumov (1755-1792) - engraver
- Mikhail Sushkov (1778-1792) - writer, suicide
- Elizaveta Vorontsova (1739-1792) - mistress of Peter III of Russia
References
- ^ Menchinger, Ethan L. (2017-08-10). The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif. Cambridge University Press. p. 157. doi:10.1017/9781108181990.009. ISBN 978-1-108-18199-0. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ^ Wieczynski, Joseph L. (1971). "Apostle of Obscurantism: the Archimandrite Photius of Russia (1792–1838)". The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 22 (4): 319–331. doi:10.1017/S002204690005870X. ISSN 0022-0469. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
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