1866 in Russia

Events from the year 1866 in Russia.

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Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Alexander II's audience after 1866 assassination by M.Zichy (GIM)

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

Events

• Daugavpils–Indra Railway
• Delo (magazine)
• Ekostrovskaya Volost
• Kalinin Machine-Building Plant
• Moscow Criminal Investigations Department
• South Eastern Railway (Russia)
• Swedish Theatre
• Alexander III marries Maria Sophie Feodorovna of Denmark

Births

• 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1866 - Dmitri Parsky, general (d. 1921)
• 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - Wassily Kandinsky, artist. (d. 1944)

Deaths

• 19 December [O.S. 7 December] 1866 - Mikhail Petrashevsky, Russian revolutionary and Utopian theorist. (b. 1821)
• Maria Ikonina, ballerina. (b. 1788)

References

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