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2013 Event - The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station

2013 Event - Americans learn the FBI and CIA had previous intelligence from Russia warning U.S. intelligence agencies about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's extremist connections before the Boston Marathon bombings

2013 Event - Russia threatens retaliation after the U.S. imposes sanctions on '18 Magnitsky list' Russians accues of humans rights violations

2013 Event - Attracting NATO criticism, Russia conducts unscheduled military exercises in the Black Sea

2013 Event - Representatives from the U.S., China, Germany, France, Russia and the U.K., discuss Iran's nuclear program with Iranian officials

2013 Event - Russia enacts a law that bans smoking in schools and on subways

2013 Event - G20 finance ministers focus on the so-named "currency wars" during their meeting in Moscow, Russia

2012 Event - A law banning Americans from adopting Russian children is approved by Russia's parliament; the action is a respons to the U.S. Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act

2012 Event - Russia lifts a ban imposed in 1996 on the import of British beef and lamb; the ban, imposed when Britain suffered from mad cow disease (BSE) had been lifted worldwide in 2006

2012 Event - In Moscow, tens of thousands protest against Vladimir Putin, chanting, 'We are the power here!' and 'Russia without Putin!'

2012 Event - Astronauts, Sunita Williams of the United States, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Aki Hoshide of Japan, arrive at the International Space Station for a three-month long mission

2012 Event - Soyuz, a spacecraft originally designed for the Soviet space program, lands safely in Kazakhstan, with Oleg Kononenko of Russia, Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands, and Don Pettit of the United States, onboard

2012 Event - Russia swears in Vladimir Putin for his third, six-year term as President

2012 Event - Scientists in Kamchatka, Russia, report sighting the first adult white orca to be seen in the wild

2012 Event - The U.S., Russia and China, begin talks about Iran's nuclear program

2012 Event - In New Delhi, India, leaders of Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and India meet for the 2012 BRICS summit

2011 Event - Boris Gryzlov, ally to Vladimir Putin and speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, resigns from his position

2011 Event - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepts a proposal from President Dmitry Medvedev to run in Russia's 2012 Presidential election

2011 Event - The 8th largest search engine in the world, Russia's Yandex, marks its first venture outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by expanding into Turkey

2011 Event - In the Volga River near Bolgar, Russia, cruise ship Bulgaria sinks; 110 people drown and 80 are rescued alive

2011 Event - Russia began searching for a missing military satellite that was launched into the wrong orbit

2010 Event - In a new deal, France is contracted to build two warships for Russia

2010 Event - Rallies protesting constitutional abuses by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are held in Moscow, Russia

2010 Event - Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, visits the Kuril Islands, the subject of a dispute with Japan

2010 Event - In accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929, Russia bans arms sales to Iran

2010 Event - The United Nations appoints Russia diplomat, Yury Fedotov, to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

2010 Event - Russia's Federal Security Service assassinates Magomedali Vagabov, a militant leader reportedly responsible for the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings

2010 Event - Large wildfires devastate Russia as pollution hits record levels

2010 Event - Russia's worst drought in history prompts Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to temporarily ban the export of flour and wheat

2010 Event - The U.K. will increase aid to poor nations, including a 40% increase in Afghanistan, while reducing aid to 'powerhouses' like Russia, China and other eastern European countries

2010 Event - South Korea develops a long-range cruise missile reportedly capable of striking North Korea, Japan, Russia and China

2010 Event - Russia announces its plan to sell Iran S-300 ground-to-air missiles, claiming that new U.N. sanctions do not cover stationary air defense weaponry

2010 Event - Planes across the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia are grounded as a result of the volcanic ash coming from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano

2010 Event - Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia

2009 Event - Slovenia agrees to allow Russia's South Stream gas pipeline to Europe pass through their country

2009 Event - Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine

2007 Death - Boris Yeltsin, died in Moscow, Russia, at 76, of congestive heart failure

2004 Event - After a 2-day standoff, Islamist terrorists murder about 340 held inside a school in Beslan, Russia

2004 Death - Paul Klebnikov, journalist, Forbes writer murdered in Russia after writing about corruption, dies at 41

1998 Event - Russia buries tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died

1997 Event - Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China

1997 Death - Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb', dies at 39

1997 Event - U.S. telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia

1997 Event - For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)

1997 Event - Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)

1997 Event - Cosmos 2344 Proton-K Launch (Russia), Failed

1997 Event - Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed

1997 Event - Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

1997 Event - Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)

1997 Event - Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)

1997 Event - Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)

1997 Event - FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia

1997 Event - U.S. and Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21

1995 Event - 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)

1995 Death - Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 55

1994 Event - 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)

1994 Event - Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile

1993 Event - Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader

1993 Event - 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27

1992 Event - Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World

1992 Event - 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43

1991 Event - Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States

1991 Event - Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev

1991 Event - Russia and U.S. sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact

1991 Event - Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in U.S.

1991 Death - Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83

1990 Death - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52

1990 Event - 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds

1988 Event - Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan

1987 Death - Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86

1987 Event - U.S. and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles

1987 Event - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia

1987 Event - Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait

1987 Death - Karl Linnas, accused Nazi, dies of heart failure in Russia

1986 Event - Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia

1984 Event - During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"

1983 Event - U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner

1983 Event - Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air

1981 Death - Lotte Lenya, singer and actress (From Russia With Love), dies in New York at 83

1981 Birthday - Anna Kournikova, born in Moscow, Russia, professional tennis player, model, winner, Grand Slam titles in Australia, 1999 and 2002

1980 Death - Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30

1980 Event - Polish railway workers block railway to Russia

1978 Event - Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia

1977 Event - Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason

1977 Birthday - Anna Baitchik, Miss Russia Universe 1997

1977 Birthday - Alexei Morozov, NHL forward, Team Russia, Pittsburgh, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1976 Birthday - Anna Smashnova, born in Minsk, Russia, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Erlangen GER

1976 Event - U.S. and Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use

1975 Birthday - Alexi Komarov, born in Yekaterinburg, Russia, dance skater, & Carr-1995 Pac Champ

1974 Birthday - Valeri Bure, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing, Montreal Canadiens, Silver Meda 1998 Olympics

1974 Birthday - Sergei Krivokrasov, born in Angarsk, Russia, NHL right wing, Blackhawks, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1974 Birthday - Sergei Gonchar, born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, NHL defenseman, Capitals, 1998 Olympics

1974 Birthday - Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Sochi Russia, tennis star, 1995 doubles-Hamburg

1974 Birthday - Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russia, tennis star

1974 Birthday - Sergei Brylin, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center for the New Jersey Devils

1973 Birthday - Alexei Yashin, NHL forward, Team Russia, Ottawa, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1973 Birthday - Andrei Nikolishin, born in Vorkuta, Russia, NHL center, Hartford Whalers

1973 Birthday - Alexei Kovalev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing for the New York Rangers

1973 Birthday - Elena Makarova, born in Moscow, Russia, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Val

1972 Birthday - Oleg Fediukov, born in Moscow, Russia, dance skater, & Debbie Koegel

1972 Birthday - Vyacheslav Kozlov, Voskresensk, Russia, NHL forward, Detroit Red Wings

1972 Birthday - Boris Mironov, born in Moscow, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics, Bronze Medal 2002 Olympics

1972 Event - Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon

1971 Birthday - Sergei Berezin, Voskrensensk Rus, NHL forward, Team Russia, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Oleg Petrov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing, Montreal Canadiens

1971 Birthday - Pavel Bure, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL left wing, Vancouver Canucks

1971 Birthday - Pavel Bure, NHL forward, Team Russia, Vancouver, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Alexander Selivanov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing, Tampa Bay Lightning

1971 Birthday - Peter Tchernyshev, St. Petersburg Russia, dance skater, & Naomi Lang

1970 Event - Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon

1970 Event - Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon

1970 Birthday - Alexei Zhamnov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1970 Birthday - Alexei Zhitnik, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Buffalo, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1970 Birthday - Igor Korolev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHLer, Team Russia, Winnipeg

1970 Birthday - Sergei Zubov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Pittsburgh

1970 Birthday - Alexander Karpovtsev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman for the New York Rangers

1969 Birthday - Sergei Fedorov, Pskov Russia, NHL forward, Detroit, Silver Medals 1998 Olympics

1969 Birthday - Igor Kravchuk, NHL defenseman, Ottawa Senators, Russia, Gold Medals 1988, 1992 Olympics, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics, Bronze Medal 2002 Olympics

1969 Birthday - Andrei Trefilov, Kirovo Russia, NHL goalie, Buffalo Sabres, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1969 Birthday - Kitty G, Katia Geiger, Leningrad Russia, cable tv actress

1969 Event - Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits

1969 Event - Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon

1969 Birthday - Igor Larionov, Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward, Team Russia, Detroit

1968 Birthday - Irina Privalova, Russia, 100m/200m/400m runner

1968 Birthday - Valeri Zelepukin, NHL forward, New Jersey Devils, Team Russia, Silver Medal1998 Olympics

1968 Event - After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio

1967 Birthday - Alexander Volkov, born in Russia, tennis star

1966 Birthday - Igor Kravchuk, Ufa Russia, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, St. Louis

1966 Birthday - Valeri Kamensky, born in Voskresensk, Russia, NHL left wing, Avalanche, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1966 Birthday - Andrei Olhovskiy, born in Moscow, Russia, tennis pro

1966 Birthday - Alexander Semak, Ufa Russia, NHL center for the New York Islanders

1966 Birthday - Andrei Chesnokov, Russia, tennis star

1965 Birthday - Dmitri Mironov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman, Pitts Penguins, Anaheim

1965 Birthday - M Shtalenkov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL goalie, Anaheim Mighty Ducks

1965 Birthday - Mikhail Shtalenkov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL goalie, Team Russia, Anaheim

1965 Birthday - German Titov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, Calgary Flames, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1964 Event - Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Khrushchev as head of Russia

1964 Birthday - Yuri Khmylev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres

1964 Birthday - Alexei Gusarov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche

1964 Event - "From Russia With Love" premieres in U.S.

1964 Birthday - Sergei Nemchinov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, New York Islanders, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1963 Event - U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear Test ban treaty

1963 Birthday - Yuri Yuriyevich Krikun, born in Russia, cosmonaut

1962 Event - John F. Kennedy warns Russia U.S. will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba

1962 Event - Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15

1962 Birthday - Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin, born in Russia, major/cosmonaut

1962 Birthday - Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, born in Russia, Lt-colonel/cosmonaut

1961 Event - Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's Communist Party

1961 Birthday - Yolanda Chen, born in Moscow, Russia, triple jumper, indoor record

1961 Death - Grigory Levenfish, International chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70

1961 Event - Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11

1960 Event - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane

1960 Death - Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 53

1958 Birthday - Viacheslav Fetisov, born in Moscow, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Detroit

1958 Birthday - Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb'

1957 Birthday - Elena V. Kondakova, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, STS-84

1957 Event - Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow, Russia

1956 Birthday - Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-12

1956 Birthday - Aleksandr Yuriyevich Kaleri, Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-14

1956 Birthday - Natalya Dmitriyevna Kuleshova, born in Russia, cosmonaut

1956 Birthday - Anatoli Borisovich Polonsky, Russia, Lt-colonel/cosmonaut

1955 Birthday - Sergei Vladimirovich Krichevsky, born in Russia, Lt-colonel/cosmonaut

1955 Event - Russia ends state of war with Germany

1954 Event - 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)

1954 Birthday - Galina Vasilyevna Amelkina, Russia, doctor/cosmonaut

1954 Birthday - Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky, Russia, cosmonaut

1954 Event - Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition

1953 Birthday - Olga Nikolayevna Klyushnikova, Russia, cosmonaut

1953 Event - Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation

1953 Event - Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb

1953 Birthday - Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin, born in Kirya Russia, cosmonaut, STS-71, TM-27

1953 Birthday - Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin, born in Russia, cosmonaut

1953 Event - Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel

1952 Birthday - Vladimir Putin, born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, second President of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister of Russia

1952 Death - W de Basil, US Voskresenski, Russia, ballet dancer, dies

1951 Event - Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb

1951 Birthday - Svetlana Oktyabrevna Omelchenko, Russia, cosmonaut

1951 Event - International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics

1951 Birthday - Yakov Smirnoff, born in Russia, comedian, It's a wonderful country

1950 Birthday - Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, born in Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 33

1950 Birthday - Nikolai Sergeivich Grekov, Russia, cosmonaut

1950 Birthday - Svetlana Georgievna Beregovkina, Russia, cosmonaut

1949 Birthday - Alexander Godunov, Russia, composer/dancer, Bolshoi, defected 1979

1949 Birthday - Nikolai Tikhonovich Moskalenko, Russia, cosmonaut

1948 Birthday - Sergei Bodrov, born in Khabarovsk, Russia, director, Katala, Somebody to Love

1947 Birthday - Alexei Ivanovich Bobrov, Russia, cosmonaut

1946 Birthday - Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky, born in Russia, cosmonaut, BST-02

1945 Event - U.S., Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany

1945 Event - Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders

1945 Event - Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin

1945 Event - Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)

1944 Event - Russia and Bulgaria sign weapon pact

1944 Event - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin

1944 Event - Finland and Russia agree to cease fire

1943 Birthday - Inna Churikova, Russia, actress, Theme

1943 Birthday - Yuri Fedorovich Isaulov, Russia, cosmonaut

1943 Event - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany

1942 Event - Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and Balkan

1942 Event - Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front

1942 Birthday - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Kramarenko, Russia, cosmonaut

1942 Event - 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred

1942 Event - Great Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia

1942 Event - Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943

1942 Birthday - Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russia, cosmonaut

1942 Event - Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia

1942 Birthday - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, Russia, cosmonaut

1941 Event - Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa Russia

1941 Event - Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" and would "never rise again"

1941 Event - German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children

1941 Event - Finland enters WW II against Russia

1941 Event - Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas

1941 Event - Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia

1940 Birthday - Boris Dmitriyevich Andreyev, Russia, cosmonaut

1940 Birthday - Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut

1940 Birthday - Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov, Russia, cosmonaut

1940 Event - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus

1940 Event - Russia begins new offensive against Finland

1940 Event - Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia

1939 Event - Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland

1939 Event - Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner

1939 Birthday - Valeri Vasilyevich Illarianov, Russia, cosmonaut

1938 Birthday - Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor, Kirov

1938 Birthday - Pia Lindstrom, critic, WNBC-TV, journalist, From Russia With Love

1938 Birthday - Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russia, cosmonaut

1938 Birthday - Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor, Atlanta Symph

1938 Death - Cesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia and 1931), dies at 46

1938 Birthday - Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer and choreographer, Kirov

1938 Birthday - Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut

1937 Birthday - Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Illyin, Russia, cosmonaut

1937 Birthday - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut

1937 Birthday - Igor Petrovich Volk, born in Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz T-12

1936 Birthday - Sergei Nikolayevich Gaidukov, Russia, cosmonaut

1936 Birthday - Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov, Russia, cosmonaut

1936 Birthday - Michael White, theater/film producer, From Russia With Love

1935 Birthday - Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov, Russia, pairs skater, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics

1935 Birthday - Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 7, 11

1935 Birthday - Mikhail Ivanovich Lisun, Russia, cosmonaut

1935 Birthday - Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russia, cosmonaut

1935 Birthday - Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kiselyov, Russia, cosmonaut

1935 Birthday - Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov, Russia, cosmonaut

1934 Birthday - Alfred Schnittke, Russia, composer, St. Florian

1934 Birthday - Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russia, cosmonaut, Vostok 1 backup

1934 Birthday - Yuri Gagarin, born in Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space, aboard Vostok 1

1933 Birthday - Vladimir Borisovich Alekseyev, Russia, cosmonaut

1933 Birthday - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet, Bratsk Station

1932 Birthday - Anatoli Yakovlevich Kartashov, Russia, cosmonaut

1932 Birthday - Oleg Protopopov, born in Russia, olympic pairs skater, Gold 1964, 68

1932 Death - Paul Doumer, President France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov

1932 Birthday - Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov, born in Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 18 backup

1932 Birthday - Boris Shakhlin, Russia, gymnast, Gold Medals 1956, 1960, 1964 Olympics

1932 Birthday - Raisa Maximovna Titorenko Gorbachev, Russia's 1st lady, 1982-1991

1932 Birthday - Anatoli Petrovich Kuklin, Russia, cosmonaut

1931 Birthday - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, U.S.S.R. State Radio

1931 Birthday - Eunice Gayson, born in London, England, actress, Dr. No, From Russia With Love

1931 Birthday - Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut

1931 Birthday - Boris Yeltsin, born in Russia, first President of the Russian Federation, endorsed free market economies

1930 Birthday - Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, born in Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 12a backup

1930 Birthday - Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets, Russia, cosmonaut

1930 Birthday - Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist, Budapest 3rd place-1956

1930 Birthday - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russia, cosmonaut

1929 Death - Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57

1929 Event - Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey

1929 Death - Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72

1928 Birthday - Veijo Meri, born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia, writer, novelist, poet, focuses on absurdity of war, published biography of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

1928 Birthday - Evgeny Svetlanov, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, Siberian Fantasy

1928 Birthday - Bella Davidovich, born in Baku, Russia, pianist, Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel

1928 Birthday - Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko, Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 7, 16

1927 Birthday - Aleksandr Nikolayevich Matinchenko, Russia, cosmonaut

1927 Birthday - Peter Bayliss, born in Thames, England, actor, From Russia With Love

1927 Birthday - Mstislav Rostropovich, born in Russia, Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, nickname "Slava", cellist, conductor, commissioned new works, enlarged cello repertoire more than any cellist, considered greatest cellist of 20th century

1927 Birthday - Vladimir M. Komarov, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, Voshkod I Soyuz 1

1926 Birthday - Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russia, cosmonaut

1926 Event - Russia and Latvia treaty of neutrality signed

1926 Birthday - Georgiy Petrovich Katys, Russia, cosmonaut, Voskhod 1 backup

1926 Event - Germany and Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty

1926 Birthday - Lev Stepanovich Demin, Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 15

1925 Event - Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact

1924 Birthday - Leonid B Kogan, Dnepropetrovsk Russia, violinist, Lenin Prize-1952

1924 Event - Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador

1923 Event - 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle, Rostov, Russia

1922 Birthday - Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer, Shur

1922 Birthday - Nikolaj G. Bassov, born in Russia, atomic physicist, laser, Nobel 1964

1921 Event - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia

1920 Birthday - Isaac Stern, born in Kreminiecz, Russia, violinist, debut San Francisco Symph

1920 Event - Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)

1920 Birthday - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer, I Robot, Foundation Trilogy

1919 Event - J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia

1918 Birthday - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born in Kislovodsk, Russia, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974

1918 Event - Latvia declares independence from Russia

1918 Event - Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

1918 Event - Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I

1918 Event - U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months

1918 Event - Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech

1918 Event - Russia severs diplomatic ties with U.S.

1918 Death - Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50

1918 Death - Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60

1918 Event - Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia

1918 Event - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

1918 Event - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign

1918 Event - Estonia declares independence from Russia

1918 Event - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia

1918 Event - Lithuania declares independence from Russia and Germany (National Day)

1918 Event - Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14)

1918 Event - Russia declared a republic of Soviets

1917 Event - Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia

1917 Event - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia

1917 Event - Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)

1917 Event - October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power

1917 Event - In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power

1917 Event - Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky

1917 Event - Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed

1917 Event - 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia

1917 Event - Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")

1917 Event - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution

1917 Event - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne

1917 Event - February revolution begins in Russia

1916 Birthday - Emil Gilels, Odessa Russia, pianist, Brussels Competition-1938

1916 Event - Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia

1915 Event - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria

1915 Event - German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia

1915 Event - Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France and Russia

1915 Death - Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65

1915 Event - Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine

1914 Event - Great Britain and France and Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 Event - Russia declares Turkey the war

1914 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 Event - Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London

1914 Event - St. Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd

1914 Event - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)

1914 Event - Von Ludendorff and von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia

1914 Event - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia

1914 Event - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I

1914 Event - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize

1914 Event - Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization

1914 Event - Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary

1914 Event - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia

1914 Birthday - Kirill P. Kondrashin, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, Hollywood Bowl 1981

1914 Event - Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia

1913 Birthday - Francis De Wolff, England, actor, From Russia With Love

1912 Birthday - Pedro Armendariz, Mexico, actor, From Russia With Love

1912 Birthday - Leonid V Kantorovich, St. Petersburg Russia, economist, Nobel

1911 Death - Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies

1911 Death - Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies

1911 Death - Pjotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11), murdered at 49

1911 Death - Piotr Stolypin, Russia's PM, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov

1910 Event - Russia absorbs Finland

1910 Birthday - Galina Ulanova, St. Petersburg Russia, ballerina, Bolshoi

1908 Birthday - David Oistrakh, born in Odessa, Russia, violinist and professor, Moscow Conservatory

1908 Event - Russia takes part of Poland

1908 Birthday - Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright, Paolo Paoli

1907 Event - Britain and Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet

1907 Event - England, Russia and France form Triple Entente

1907 Birthday - Tamara Geva, born in Russia, dancer, actress, choreographer, married to George Balanchine

1907 Birthday - Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer, Russia Black on White

1906 Birthday - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St. Petersburg Russia, composer

1906 Birthday - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St. Petersburg Russia, composer

1906 Birthday - Albert B Sabin, Russia, U.S. microbiologist, oral polio vaccine

1906 Birthday - George Sanders, Russia, actor, All About Eve-Academy Award 1950

1906 Event - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia

1906 Event - Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time

1905 Event - Netherlands/Russian Count Witte becomes premier of Russia

1905 Event - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia

1905 Event - Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament)

1905 Event - 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia

1905 Event - Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days

1905 Birthday - Sam Levene, Russia, actor, Demon, Gung Ho, Boomerang

1905 Birthday - John Gart, Russia, orchestra leader, Paul Winchell Show

1904 Birthday - Nathan Milstein, born in Odessa, Russia, concert violinist, Philadelphia Orchestra 1942

1904 Birthday - Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St. Petersburg Russia, composer, In the Fire,

1904 Birthday - Sergei Yutkevich, St. Petersburg Russia, director, Otello, Banya

1904 Birthday - Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St. Petersburg Russia, composer, In the Fire,

1904 Birthday - Tom Conway, Russia, actor, Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show

1904 Event - Japan and Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships

1904 Event - Japan declares war on Russia

1904 Birthday - Alexandra Danilova, Peterhof Russia, ballerina, Turning Point

1903 Event - Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia

1903 Birthday - Nikolai Cherkasov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, actor, Ivan the Terrible

1903 Birthday - Arthur Tracy, born in Russia, street singer, Vincent Lopez Show, Limelight

1903 Event - Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist

1903 Birthday - Leonid Kinskey, St. Petersburg Russia, actor, Casablanca

1903 Birthday - Gregor Piatigorsky, born in Ekaterinoslav, Russia, cellist, or 4/20

1903 Birthday - Nicolas Nabokov, Near Lubcha Minsk Russia, composer, Holy Devil

1902 Birthday - Leon Belasco, Odessa Russia, actor, Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen

1901 Birthday - Andre Kostelanetz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Lincoln Portrari

1901 Birthday - Anastasia N Romanova, great ruler of Russia/daughter of last tsar

1901 Birthday - Lev N. Lunts, Russia, writer, Outside the Law, City of Truth

1901 Birthday - Mark Donskoy, born in Odessa, Russia, director, Heart of a Mother

1900 Birthday - Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist, Ditters and Jitters

1900 Birthday - Efrem Kurtz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Houston Symph 1948-54

1900 Birthday - Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer, Zavod,

1900 Birthday - Jennie Tourel, St. Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano, Met Opera 1943-47

1900 Birthday - Polly Adler, Russia, bordello proprieter/author, House is not a Home

1900 Birthday - Eugenie Leontovitch, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Homicidal

1899 Birthday - Nikolai Batalov, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Mother

1899 Birthday - Akim Tamiroff, Tiflis Russia, actor, For Whom the Bell Tolls

1899 Birthday - Olga Baclanova, born in Moscow, Russia, actress, Freaks, Docks of New York

1899 Birthday - Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, novelist, Lolita, Ada

1899 Birthday - Alexander Tcherepnin, St. Petersburg Russia, composer

1898 Event - Jews are expelled from Kiev, Russia

1898 Birthday - Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director, Battleship Potemkin,

1897 Birthday - Olga Chekova, born in Russia, actress, Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children

1897 Birthday - Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor and director, Corsican Brothers

1896 Birthday - Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St. Petersburg Russia, poet

1896 Event - Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned

1896 Birthday - Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist, Chopin

1895 Birthday - Nikolai A. Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of U.S.S.R., 1955-58

1895 Birthday - Mary Marquet, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, actress, Matter of Resistance

1894 Death - Aleksandr III A Romanov, czar of Russia (1881-94), dies at 49

1894 Birthday - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia, composer, Academy Award 1954-High and Mighty

1894 Birthday - Nikita Khrushchev, born in Kalinovka, Russia, 1st secretary U.S.S.R., 1953 - 1964

1894 Event - France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia

1893 Event - Russia signs military accord with France

1893 Event - Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France

1893 Birthday - Fabien Sevitzky, Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor, Philadelphia Orchestra

1892 Birthday - Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer, Bio in Sonata Form

1892 Birthday - Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion, 1927-35, 37-46

1892 Birthday - Billy West, Russia, actor, Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy

1892 Birthday - Edward H Carr, born in England, historian, History of Soviet Russia

1892 Event - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin

1891 Birthday - Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor, Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody

1891 Birthday - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist, Black Snow

1891 Event - Jews are expelled from Moscow, Russia

1890 Birthday - Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orchestra leader, NBC Comedy Hour

1890 Birthday - Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet, Dr. Zhivago, Nobel 1958,

1889 Birthday - Vladimir Sokoloff, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Road to Morocco

1889 Birthday - Efrem Zimbalist, Rostov on Don Russia, composer and violinist

1889 Birthday - Alexander Smallens, St. Petersburg, Russia, conductor

1887 Birthday - Marc Chagall, born in Vitebsk, Russia, artist, I and The Village

1886 Event - Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia

1886 Event - Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia

1886 Birthday - Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter, Erasmus Prize 1960

1885 Birthday - Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive, MGM

1884 Birthday - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright, We

1884 Birthday - Sophie Tucker, Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas

1882 Event - 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia

1882 Birthday - Igor Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer, Rite of Spring,

1882 Birthday - Igor Stravinsky, born in Oranienbaum Russia, composer, Rite of Spring

1882 Birthday - Albert Coates, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, conductor and composer, Eagle

1882 Birthday - Anna Pavlova, St. Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer

1881 Death - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62

1880 Birthday - Mikhail Fokine, born in Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance

1880 Event - Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt

1879 Event - Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia and English

1877 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania

1876 Birthday - Maria Ouspenskaya, Tula Russia, actress, Waterloo Bridge

1874 Birthday - Serge Koussevitzky, Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor, Boston Symp

1873 Birthday - Sergei Rachmaninoff, born in Novgorod, Russia, composer, Prelude in C# Minor

1872 Birthday - Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, born in Russia, dance master, Imperial Ballet

1872 Birthday - Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director

1870 Birthday - Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet and novelist, Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933

1869 Birthday - Hans Erich Pfitzner, born in Moscow, Russia, composer, Krakquer Begrus

1868 Birthday - Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia, 1894-1917

1867 Event - U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia

1867 Event - U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000

1866 Event - Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia

1865 Birthday - Tikhon Toropets, Pskov Russia, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint

1865 Birthday - Alexander K Glazunov, St. Petersburg Russia, composer, Chopiniana

1865 Death - Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70

1863 Birthday - Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist and professor, Moscow Cons 1888-91

1863 Birthday - Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russia, director, Stanislavski Method

1862 Event - Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St. Petersburg Russia)

1862 Birthday - Pyotr A. Stolypin, premier Russia, 1906-11

1861 Event - Warsaw Massacre: Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russia

1860 Birthday - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright, Cherry Orchard

1859 Birthday - Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician, Armenian Rhapsody

1858 Event - Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia

1856 Birthday - Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, born in Tambov, Russia, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration

1856 Birthday - Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, Russia, composer, Oresteia

1856 Birthday - Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia

1856 Birthday - Andrey Markov, born in Russia, mathematician, Markov Chain

1856 Event - Peace between England and Russia

1856 Event - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War

1855 Birthday - Anatoli Liadov, St. Petersburg, Russia, composer, Enchanted Lake,

1855 Event - Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia

1855 Death - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58

1854 Event - During the Crimean War, Britain and France declare war on Russia

1850 Birthday - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, St. Petersburg Russia, composer

1849 Birthday - Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology, Nobel 1904

1849 Event - Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria and Russia

1849 Birthday - Sergei J Witte, Netherlands/Russian count/premier Russia

1846 Birthday - Peter Carl Faberge, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker

1844 Birthday - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, born in Tikhvin, Russia, composer, Scheherazade

1843 Birthday - Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author, Power of the Soil

1840 Event - England, Russia, Austria and Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance

1840 Birthday - Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk, Russia, composer, 1812 Overture

1837 Birthday - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer, Tamara

1834 Event - Prussia, Austria and Russia sign classified accord about Belgium

1833 Birthday - Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer, Robert LeDiable

1833 Event - Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty

1830 Event - England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium

1829 Event - Jews expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol Russia

1829 Event - Russia and Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople

1828 Birthday - Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,

1828 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence

1828 Event - Russia and Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai

1826 Birthday - Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist, Family of Noblemen

1825 Event - Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins

1825 Death - Aleksandr I P Romanov, czar of Russia (1801-25), dies at 47

1825 Event - Russia and Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary

1824 Event - Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N

1821 Birthday - Nikolai Nekrasov, Russ, poet/journalist, Who Can be Happy in Russia?

1821 Birthday - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist, Crime and Punishment

1818 Event - Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine

1818 Birthday - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons,

1818 Birthday - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons,

1818 Event - Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France and England

1818 Birthday - Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia, 1855-81

1815 Event - Russia, Prussia, Austria and England signs Great Alliance

1815 Event - Russia, Prussia and Austria sign Holy Alliance

1813 Event - Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria and Russia)

1812 Event - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia

1812 Event - Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia

1812 Birthday - Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer, Oblomov

1812 Event - Napoleon invades Russia

1807 Event - France, Russia and Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit

1804 Birthday - Mikhail Ivan Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer, Jota Aragonesa

1801 Event - Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia

1801 Death - Paul I, tsar of Russia (1796-1801), strangled at 46

1799 Event - Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition

1799 Event - England and Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic

1799 Birthday - Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit

1799 Birthday - Alexandr Pushkin, Russia, writer, Eugene Onegin, 5/26 OS

1799 Birthday - Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer, Eugene Onegin

1798 Event - Russia and England sign Second anti-French Coalition

1798 Event - Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books

1797 Event - Russia, Prussia and Austria sign treaty

1796 Death - Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67

1796 Death - Catharina II the Great, empress of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67

1796 Death - Catharina II, "the Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67

1796 Birthday - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia, 1825-55

1795 Event - 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia

1795 Birthday - Anna Paulowna Romanova, monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I

1793 Event - 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia and Russia

1793 Event - Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)

1792 Birthday - Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist, discovered human ovum

1792 Event - Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy

1791 Birthday - Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist, Chronicles of a Russian Family

1791 Birthday - Nikolaj A. Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter, Account about Holland

1790 Event - Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Verela

1788 Death - Johann Georg Hamann, born in Konigsberg, now Kaliningrad, Russia, writer, philosopher, supported the Sturm und Drang movement, dies

1788 Event - Austria declares war on Russia

1787 Event - Turkey declares war on Russia

1784 Event - Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople

1783 Event - Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia

1783 Event - Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim

1777 Birthday - Aleksandr I P Romanov, tsar of Russia, 1801-25

1775 Birthday - Peter the Great, Russia

1775 Death - Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia

1772 Event - 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia

1764 Death - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23

1762 Death - Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34

1762 Death - Peter III Feodorovich, tsar of Russia (1761-62), murdered at 34

1762 Event - Russia and Prussia sign peace treaty

1762 Event - Russia and Prussia signs peace treaty

1762 Death - Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52

1761 Death - Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51

1760 Event - Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia

1760 Event - Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia

1756 Event - Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles

1755 Event - England and Russia sign military agreement

1746 Event - Russia and Austria sign agreements

1746 Event - Russia and Austria signs treaty of cooperation

1743 Event - Sweden and Russia sign peace treaty

1742 Event - Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia

1741 Event - Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia

1740 Event - Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia

1740 Death - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47

1740 Event - Ivan VI becomes Czar of Russia

1740 Death - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47

1740 Birthday - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41

1740 Event - Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews

1740 Event - Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne

1739 Event - Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade

1734 Event - England and Russia sign trade agreement

1732 Event - Russia and Persia sign Treaty of Riascha

1730 Birthday - Johann Georg Hamann, born in Konigsberg, now Kaliningrad, Russia, writer, philosopher, supported the Sturm und Drang movement

1730 Death - Peter II Alekseyevitch, emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14

1730 Death - Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14

1729 Birthday - Catherine II, the Great, empress of Russia, 1762-96

1729 Birthday - Catharina II, the Great, writer/emperess of Russia, 1762-96

1728 Birthday - Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia, 1761-62

1727 Event - Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia

1727 Death - Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies

1727 Event - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia

1727 Death - Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42

1725 Death - Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia (1682-1725), dies at 52

1725 Death - Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia, dies at 52

1724 Event - Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople

1717 Event - France, Russia and Prussia sign agreement

1716 Event - Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia and marries Czar Peter the Great's niece

1715 Birthday - Peter II Aleksejevitsj, Emperor of Russia, 1727-30

1715 Birthday - Peter II, czar of Russia, 1727-30

1714 Event - Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty

1713 Event - Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty

1712 Birthday - Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic, Viaggio in Russia

1709 Birthday - Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia/daughter of Peter the Great

1709 Birthday - Elizabeth, empress of Russia, to Peter the Great and Catherine I

1706 Event - Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen

1700 Event - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva

1700 Event - Turkey declares war on Russia

1700 Event - Russia replaces Byzantines with Julian calendar

1699 Event - Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden

1698 Event - Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards

1696 Birthday - Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman, Turkey, 1730-54, fought Austria and Russia

1696 Death - Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89), dies

1693 Birthday - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia, 1730-40,

1693 Birthday - Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia, 1730-40, 2/7 NS

1693 Birthday - Anna Ivanova Romanova, daughter of Ivan V/empress of Russia, 1730-40

1690 Birthday - Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great

1689 Event - Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia

1689 Event - China and Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul)

1689 Event - Russia began taxing men's beards

1684 Birthday - Catherine I, empress of Russia, 1725-27

1684 Birthday - Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia

1682 Event - Sofia names herself regent of Russia

1682 Death - Theodorus III, czar of Russia (1676-82), dies

1681 Death - Fjodor Aleksejevitsj, tsar of Russia, dies

1676 Death - Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov-czar of Russia, dies at 46

1676 Event - Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar of Russia

1672 Birthday - Peter I Romanov, tsar of Russia, 1682-1725

1672 Birthday - Peter I, the Great, tsar of Russia, 1682-1725

1672 Birthday - Peter I "the Great" Romanov, great tsar of Russia, 1682-1725

1667 Event - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty

1667 Event - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty

1667 Event - Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland and Russia

1667 Event - Russia and Poland sign Truce of Androsovo

1666 Birthday - Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia, 1682-89

1661 Event - Treaty of Kardis: Russia and Sweden sign peace treaty

1657 Birthday - Sophia, regent of Russia, 1682-89

1656 Event - Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant

1656 Event - Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant

1645 Death - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, dies

1645 Event - Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia

1634 Event - Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov

1629 Birthday - Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov tsar of Russia

1618 Event - Russia and Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino

1617 Event - Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa

1613 Event - Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia

1610 Death - Forges Dimitri 2, czar of Russia, murdered

1610 Event - Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia

1610 Event - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia and Sweden

1606 Death - Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered

1606 Event - 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia

1605 Death - Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies

1605 Death - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies

1598 Event - Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia

1598 Death - Theodorus I, Fedor Ivanovitch, czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40

1596 Birthday - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia, 1613-45, 1st Romanov

1582 Event - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic

1570 Death - Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed

1557 Birthday - Theodorus I, Fedor Ivanovitsj, czar of Russia, 1584-98

1557 Event - 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and U.S. sign trade agreement

1530 Birthday - Ivan IV, the Terrible, 1st tsar of Russia, 1533-84

990 Event - Russia adopts Julian calendar













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