Events from the year 1890 in Russia.
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Incumbents
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Births
edit- January 20 - Boris Kozo-Polyansky, botanist and evolutionary biologist (d. 1957)
- February 10 – Boris Pasternak, writer (Doctor Zhivago), Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)
- March 9 (new style) - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
- April 18 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d.1958)
- May 27 – Konstantin Ivanov, poet and important figure in Chuvash literature (d.1915)
- August 3 – Konstantin Melnikov, avant-garde architect (d. 1974)
- August 13 – Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a pilot's licence (d. 1916)
- November 9 – Grigory Kulik, Soviet military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1950)
- November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
Deaths
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- April 1 – Alexander Mozhaysky, an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, an aviation pioneer, and a researcher and designer of heavier-than-air craft (b. 1825)
- December 18 – Grigory Danilevsky, historical novelist, and Privy Councillor of Russia (b. 1829)
References
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