Korzybski was born in Warsaw, Poland which at that time was part of the Russian Empire.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, 1446 persons in the Russian Empire reported Ainu language as their mother tongue, 1434 of them in Sakhalin Island.

Johnson's purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 was his most important foreign policy action.

* 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.

In the Russian Empire, it was a part of Yeniseysk Governorate.

In foreign policy, Abdülaziz turned to the Russian Empire for friendship, as turmoil in the Balkan provinces continued.

* 1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire

* 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

Disraeli saw the situation as a matter of British imperial and strategic interests, keeping to Palmerston's policy of supporting the Ottoman Empire against Russian expansion.

After the Partitions of Poland, most of the Baltic lands were under the rule of the Russian Empire, where the native languages were sometimes prohibited from being written down, or used publicly.

Also encouraged by the British victory were the Austrian Empire and the Russian Empire, both of whom were mustering armies as part of a Second Coalition, which declared war on France in 1799.

* The British Empire, although officially a staunch supporter of the Ottoman Empire's integrity, took secret diplomatic steps encouraging Greek entry into the League in order to counteract Russian influence.

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

Catherine II ( the Great ), who ruled in 1762 – 96, presided over the Age of Russian Enlightenment.

" The great event which snatched him from destruction was the death of the Russian empress ( 5 January 1762 ( N. S.

In June 1762, 40, 000 Russian troops were assembled in Pomerania under General Pyotr Rumyantsev.

In 1762, Lomonosov presented an improved design of a reflecting telescope to the Russian Academy of Sciences forum.

When Paul turned eighteen, he was appointed Fleet Admiral of the Russian navy and colonel of the Cuirassier regiment, the latter of which was already granted him in 1762.

In 1762, Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst, a German native of Stettin, Pomerania, displaced her husband Peter III ( an even more Western German ) and took the vacant Russian imperial throne, assuming the name of Catherine II.

Catherine the Great published manifestos in 1762 and 1763 inviting Europeans, ( except Jews ) to immigrate and farm Russian lands while maintaining their language and culture.

Count Fabian Gotthard von Steinheil ( 1762 – 23 February 1831 ) ( Фаддей Фёдорович Штейнгель, Faddei Fjodorovitš Šteingel ) was a Russian military officer, and the Governor-General of Finland between 1810 and 1824.

In the Russian Empire, many victory titles originated in the period between the accession of Catherine the Great ( 1762 ) and the death of Nicholas I of Russia ( 1855 ).

Charles Peter Ulrich, who acceded to the Russian throne as Peter III in 1762, was determined to conquer Schleswig and Holstein from Denmark – Norway.

A descendant of the Georgian Kings, with Georgia already annexed by the Russian Empire at the death of King George XII Bagration of Georgia in 1801, ( with the Russian conquest of Ossetia in 1802 ), successor of King Erekle II Bagration, ( Georgian: ერეკლე II ) ( 7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 – 11 January 1798 ) reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798.

With the accession of Peter III of Russia, formerly Duke of Holstein, formerly elected King of Sweden by the Swedish Parliament, former King of Finland by his aunt decision, the Russian Empress, soon to be assassinated after only 6 months of being " promoted " to new Emperor of Russia, he received instructions ( May 1762 ) to join his forces with the former enemies, the Prussians.

But at Frederick's request the Russian commander suppressed the order and participated in the Prussian victory of Burkersdorf ( 21 July 1762 ).

Dmitry Yakovlevich Laptev () ( 1701-) was a Russian Arctic explorer and Vice Admiral ( 1762 ).

The rector between 1762 and 1805 was Daniel Dumaresq after his period as an educational consultant to Russian and Polish monarchs.

The Russian vessel Saint Peter and Paul wrecked at Shemya in 1762.

In 1762, Kartli was united with the neighboring eastern Georgian kingdom of Kakheti into a single state only to be annexed by the Russian Empire in 1801.

Count Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov ( Петр Иванович Шувалов ; 1710 – 1762 ) was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal who, together with his brother Aleksandr Shuvalov, paved the way for the elevation of the Shuvalov family to the highest offices of the Russian Empire.

( This was to be a motivation for his son Peter in 1762, upon his Russian accession, to start preparations for the use of Russian troops to reconquer the lost lands from Denmark.

In 2010 it was published in Russia as another bilingual ( Russian – Esperanto ) edition.

* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )

* 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer ( d. 1989 )

* 1978 – Igor Semshov, Russian footballer

* 1990 – Natalya Milnichenko, Russian guitarist and singer ( Ranetki Girls )

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

* 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright ( d. 1886 )

* 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer ( d. 1888 )

* 1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1979 – Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast

* 1985 – Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter ( Serebro )

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

* 1905 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician

* 1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1958 – Sergei Krikalev, Russian astronaut

* 1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

* 1940 – Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician

* 1669 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian wife of Peter the Great ( d. 1731 )

* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer ( d. 1919 )

* 1945 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater ( d. 2012 )

Category: Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1917 – 1925 )

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

* 2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

* 1803 – Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer ( d. 1869 )