1900 in Russia

← 1899 1898 1897 1900 in Russia → 1901 1902 1903
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Events from the year 1900 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Nicholas II

Events

• Pyramid of Capitalist System
• Russian polar expedition of 1900–02
• Trans-Siberian Railway Panorama
• Russian Empire at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Births

• 17 January – Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia, a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (died 1974)
• 28 February – Vsevolod Vitalyevich Vishnevsky, writer, screenwriter, playwright, and journalist (died 1951)
• 6 April – Konstantin Aleksandrovich Vialov, poster artist, graphic artist, illustrator, set designer (died 1976)
• 14 April Nikolay Andreyevich Prishchepa, Red Army major general killed in World War II (died 1941)
• 17 April – Elisabeth Pinajeff, actress (died 1995)
• 18 April – Nikolai Nikolaevich Vashugin, general and a political officer (died 1941)
• 24 April – Vasily Filippovich Gerasimenko, lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II (died 1953)
• 30 June – Pyotr Mikhaylovich Gavrilov, an officer known as the hero of the Defense of Brest Fortress (died 1979)
• 2 October Nicolai Poliakoff OBE, the creator of Coco the Clown (died 1974)
• 21 October – Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev, film director (died 1984)
• 26 October Zvi Preigerzon, an author who specialized in historical prose of a historically fictional nature (died 1969)
• 4 November – Sergei Dmitrievich Vasilyev, film director, screenwriter, and actor (died 1959)
• 6 November Iosif Leonidovich Prut, a playwright, and the first Soviet screenwriter (died 1996)
• 16 November – Nikolai Fyodorovich Pogodin, playwright (died 1962)
• 2 December – Nina Ivanovna Gagen-Torn, poet, writer, historian, and ethnographer (died 1986)
• 2 December Aleksandr Andreyevich Prokofiev, poet, journalist, war correspondent, and public figure (died 1971)

Deaths

• 3 January – Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich, writer (born 1822)
• 18 January – Count Fyodor Logginovich Heiden, military commander of German-Dutch ancestry who served in the Imperial Russian Army (born 1921)
• 21 January – Solomon Zalkind Minor, rabbi and writer (born 1827)
• 28 March – Apolinary Horawski, painter (born 1833)
• 20 April – Leonid Nikolaevich Maikov, a prominent researcher in the history of Russian literature, a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, president of the Russian Bibliological Society, Privy Councillor, the son of the painter Nikolay Maykov (born 1839)
• 25 April – Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia, great-granddaughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia, the wife of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1838)
• 1 May – Sergei Sergeyevich Korsakov, neuropsychiatrist (born 1854)
• 2 May – Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, painter (born 1817)
• 21 June – Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov, Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1845)
• 30 June – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, a clergyman and mathematician (born 1827)
• 30 July – Grigory Avetovich Dzhanshiyev, lawyer, publicist, and historian of Armenian descent (born 1951)
• 4 August – Isaac Ilyich Levitan, painter (born 1860)
• 15 September – Nikolay Ivanovich Krasnov, a writer and lieutenant general of the Imperial Russian Army (born 1833)
• 17 November – Alexander Konstantinovich Bagration-Imeretinsky, a Georgian royal prince, a General of the Russian Imperial Army, and a hero of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) (born 1837)

References

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