1859 in Russia

Events from the year 1859 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

Events

• The Vodka protests of 1858–1859
• Iskra (magazine)
• Russian Musical Society
• Vilnius–Kaunas Railway

Births

• March 16 [O.S. March 4] – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906 [O.S. 1905])
• September 24 – Radko Dimitriev, Bulgarian and Russian general (d. 1918)

Deaths

References

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