1863 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

  Events

• Apraksin Dvor
• Pavel Military School
• Vremya
• Tolstoy took five years to complete his epic.

  Births

• Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia
• Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, heir presumptive to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Nestor Kotlyarevsky, author, literary critic
• Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy, religious philosopher
• Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin, zoologist
• Aleksandr Golovin
• Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner
• Basil Belavin was born in 1865.

  Deaths

• Nikolai Turczaninow, botanist
• Mikhail Shchepkin, actor
• Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov, Major-General
• Jekaterina Saltykov, courtier