Before the development of practical electronic TV, there were patents on mechanically scanned color systems as early as 1889 in Russia.

** The Sochi Arboretum, which goes back to 1889, possesses the most comprehensive collection of subtropical flora in Russia, including 76 species of pine, 80 species of oak, and 24 species of palm.

* Curzon, Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question, ( 1889 ) Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., London ( reprinted Cass, 1967 ), Adamant Media Corporation ISBN 978-1-4021-7543-5 ( 27 February 2001 ) Reprint ( Paperback ) Details

* Russia In Central Asia In 1889 by George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston at archive. org

* Claudius Rondeau, Diplomatic Dispatches from Russia ( St Petersburg, 1889 – 1892 ).

Opening verses of a poem composed in Arvanitika, with Greek translation, honouring the marriage between Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia | Alexandra and Archduke Paul of Russia ; 1889.

Charles Steinmetz, who came from Germany in 1889, developed new alternating-current electrical systems at General Electric Company, and Vladimir Zworykin, who left Russia in 1919 and later invented a television camera.

The paper was founded in 1889 as Päivälehti, when Finland was a Grand Duchy under the Tsar of Russia.

It was crafted and delivered to the then Tsar of Russia, Alexander III who presented it to his wife, Maria Feodorovna on Easter day 1889.

Yablochkov participated in Electrical engineering exhibitions in Russia ( 1880 and 1882 ), Paris ( 1881 and 1889 ), and First International Congress of Electricians ( 1881 ).

Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko (; ; ) ( July 31, 1802 – January 23, 1889, Santiago de Chile ) was a 19th-century geologist, mineralogist and educator who was born in Nesvizh, Imperial Russia ( present-day Belarus ), into a Polish-Lithuanian family.

* Mentioned in the 1889 novel Three Vassar Girls in Russia and Turkey on pages 75 – 76 as being " a seat of learning in the Middle Ages ... In 1492 there was a printing-press established here, before the art of printing was in general use elsewhere.

In 1889 he co-founded magazine " Свободная Россия " ( Free Russia ) but it survived only three issues.

Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy () ( March 13, 1823 – May 7, 1889 ) was a Russian statesman, a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia ( 1866 ).

The idea of a railway connecting Russia and India was proposed by several private Russian promoters in 1889, 1900, and 1905.

In 1889 Russia and the Shah agreed that no railways could be built in Iran without the mutual consensus of the Russians.

His other novels include The Phantom Future ( the only novel of his set entirely in England, 1889 ), The Slave of the Lamp ( 1892 ), From One Generation to Another ( 1892 ), The Sowers ( generally considered his best, set in Russia, where it was banned ) ( 1896 ), In Kedar's Tents ( 1897 ), Roden's Corner ( 1898 ), Suspense, Dross ( 1899 ), Slave of the Lamp, With Edged Tools ( a bestseller in 1894 ), Grey Lady, Isle of Unrest ( 1900 ), The Velvet Glove, The Vultures ( 1902 ), Queen ( 1903 ), Barlasch of the Guard ( 1903 ) and " The Last Hope " ( 1904 ).

In 1889 Spektor was elected an honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia ; in the same year he declared himself emphatically opposed to the proposed celebration of his rabbinical jubilee.

Category: 1889 establishments in Russia

Curzon Russia in Central Asia ( London ) 1889

In June 1889, Alexandra ’ s 18-year-old granddaughter, Princess Alexandra of Greece, returned to Russia to marry Grand Duke Paul, who was the younger brother of Tsar Alexander III.

In 1889, Schiffers gave the first public lectures on chess theory in Russia, at the St Petersburg Chess Association and in other cities.

* 1889 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate ( d. 1957 )

* 1822 – Jakov Ignjatović, Serbian novelist and prose writer ( d. 1889 )

* 1889 – Acharya Ramlochan Saran, Indian writer ( d. 1971 )

* 1889 – Charles Kay Ogden, English linguist, philosopher, and writer ( d. 1957 )

* 1889 – Jean Cocteau, French writer ( d. 1963 )

* 1826 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer ( d. 1889 )

* 1889 – Maurice Collis, Irish writer ( d. 1973 )

* 1957 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate ( b. 1889 )

* 1851 – Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian writer ( d. 1889 )

* William Henry Monk ( 1823 – 1889 ), English hymn tune writer

* 1808 – Jules Barbey d ' Aurevilly, French writer ( d. 1889 )

* 1838 – Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, French writer ( d. 1889 )

** Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic ( b. 1889 )

** Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer ( d. 1889 )

* January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1889 )

* February 24 – Herbert Asbury, American journalist and writer, from a chronic lung disease ( b. 1889 )

** Jean Cocteau, French writer ( b. 1889 )

* December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer and journalist ( b. 1889 )

** Conrad Aiken, American writer ( b. 1889 )

** Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator ( b. 1889 )

** Horace Alexander, English writer, pacifist, and ornithologist ( b. 1889 )

* November 2 – Jules Barbey d ' Aurevilly, French writer ( d. 1889 )

* November 7 – Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, French writer ( d. 1889 )

* Maria Dąbrowska 1889 writer

* John Middleton Murry ( 1889 – 1957 ), writer