1829_in_Russia
Events from the year 1829 in Russia
- Monarch — Nicholas I
- Metropolitan and Archbishop of Moscow — Philaret Drozdov
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- Mizur (Мизур), a rural settlement, founded
- February, Hans Karl Friedrich Anton Graf von Diebitsch und Narten (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ди́бич-Забалка́нский) replaces Russian commander-in-chief Prince Peter Wittgenstein in a Russo-Turkish War
- 7 May, Diebitsch and 60,000 men cross the Danube to restart the siege of Silistra
- 30 May, Battle of Kulevitcha between Russia and Ottoman Empire
- Russian victory
- 19 June, Silistra falls to Russians
- 12 September, Greek War of Independence results in Greek victory, Russia having supported Greece throughout the nine years of conflict.
- 14 September, Russo-Turkish War, sparked by the Greek War of Independence, ends in a Russian victory
- Treaty of Adrianpole (also called Treaty of Edirne)
- Occupation of Danubian Principalities
- Poltava ( Полтава) by Alexander Pushkin
- Narrative poem on Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa's involvement in the Battle of Poltava between Sweden and Russia that took place in 1709
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- 13 August [O.S. 1] — Ivan Sechenov, psychologist, physiologist, medical scientist (d.1905)
- 28 November — Anton Rubinstein, pianist, composer (d.1894)
- Yekaterina von Engelhardt
- Maria Sinyavskaya
- Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, painter, academician of Russian Academy of Arts (b.1771)
- 11 February — Alexander Griboyedov, playwright, diplomat (b.1795)
- Killed by mob[1]
- 28 September [O.S. 16] — Nikolay Raevsky, general and statesman (b.1771)
- Hopkirk, Peter (1992). The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. John Murray. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-56836-022-5.
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